Stop Letting Your Goals Make You A Prisoner.

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When I launched my podcast in February, I set up a list of goals as long as my arm. These goals ranged in scope and nature from small to large, easy to very difficult.

It was a fun process to set goals, some easy ones, some stretch goals, and some in-between. But really, it was a way for me to dream.

My goals could be anything because I didn’t have to do them yet. My goals could be 10,000 downloads by March or 1,000,000,000 subscribers by December.

Whatever they were, it was cool. Cool to dream of things that were unlikely, but maybe possible. After all, Charli D’Amelio gained 22 Million followers in 7 months on TikTok, so couldn’t I grow a lot, too?

Anything is possible while you’re dreaming.

But then reality set in. I had other responsibilities. I couldn’t make sure every episode got 100s of streams, and I couldn’t make sure I got every listener to become a subscriber and a fan. Some episodes gained more traction than others, and my subscriber base ebbed and flowed, seemingly at random.

It turns out, growing a podcast can actually be tough. Who would have guessed?

But I put in really consistent work anyway, and you know what? I still missed most of my goals.