How to avoid the "go big or go home" error that keeps you from reaching your business goals

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When you want to reach a big goal, should you aim for the highest possible objective, also known as "go big or go home," or should you start with something smaller first?

Here are a few more questions to help us think about the issue.

If you wanted to become a mountain climber, would the first mountain you climb be Mt. Everest?

If you wanted to become a runner, would your first workout be a marathon?

If you want to become a writer, should you first write a book?

If you want to become the creator of a course, should your first course be a massive $2,000 program?

I'm sure you can see where I'm going with all this.

When you want to create a big project, you are often better off building your skills with smaller, related projects first

And it's not just because of doubt and fear, although those are factors, too.

It's because the big task has far too many elements to manage.  It's hard to hold on to them in our minds, and we quickly become overwhelmed.

Let's consider writing a book

You figure out the purpose of the book and the chapter headings, outline the chapters, and finally, write each chapter.

Sounds simple enough, right?

But in reality, people who don't write much struggle with each step. They haven't thought much about how to organize their ideas, let alone in a book-length format, how to organize within the chapters, or how to write in a way that flows.

Sure, writing the book will give you practice in all those skills, but you want at least a few of them to be second nature before you begin writing the book; otherwise, you are ripe for overwhelm.

This is one reason I think so many people fail at big goals

They don't realize that there's a huge learning load they have to take on. Writing a book is not as simple as just sitting down to type every day.

The same is true when you are building a course.

You must learn a great many skills to put a course together well. If your course is large, the burden is larger. This is one reason course-building is so overwhelming.

But if the course is small, the burden is smaller

It's much more likely that you can handle it. And once you've created a few small courses, the idea of making a big course won't feel so overwhelming. You'll know that you have the skills to make it happen.

That's why I suggest most people start with atomic (tiny) courses—courses you can create in a short period of time that deliver real results for your customers.

Ready to create a tiny course?

The Atomic Course Blueprint shows you how to clarify your idea, outline it, and produce it.

It takes the overwhelm out of course building by showing you a step-by-step process.

Immediately after getting the Blueprint, Carrie Goucher wrote to me:

"The course [Atomic Course Blueprint] has really shifted my thinking on the type of course I can create quickly and I'm already 50% there on an atomic course that I thought would take several months to put together."

And she's not alone.

See for yourself: https://roddaut.gumroad.com/l/atomic-course