It’s Saturday, I have a busy weekend ahead so let’s see about a more leisurely post and one that perhaps gets you thinking and sharing. Up for a conversation?

There are no shortage of posts around the blogosphere telling you how to make money, earn a full time income, and in some cases “become rich” with blogging. While I utilize a lot of concepts and put them to work for myself, I don’t often blog about income. I don’t see it serving a huge purpose at the moment because there are many other places to fill the need to learn this.

Additionally, constantly blogging about earning an income on my own blog means that I would be putting aside my own goals for this blog as well as generating “me too” concepts that have been said by other bloggers.

Now, having said that, I do have income goals and monetization strategies that I have put into place for myself (most of them are not on this blog). But because of the income I do and can generate I have extreme goals to create my own since of notoriety within the blogosphere.

Previously I’ve talked about brainstorming goals that will enable you to reach the level of success that you choose to have. But mostly the goals I suggested in that post were how you would reach the next level of blogging, again, not monetization.

But I have a dream that I’m working towards with monetization because of my blogging and here’s where this post is going.

When you look at your blogging goals, where are they taking you in your real life?

Do you want to quit your day job? Do you want to earn a specific dollar amount per month? Are you waiting to afford your dream vacation or get-away? Is your blog just an outlet with no monetization strategy?

Today, I’ll give you a glimpse of my own offline goal of where blogging will take me and I invite you to share your own goal(s) as well…

If you have read my about page, you may know that I live in Las Vegas. You’ll also know that I’m absolutely in love with my city and have no real intention of leaving but recently, this changed.

For some unknown reason I started doing a lot of research and day dreaming about Europe and have decided that I want more than a visit, I’d love to live there and more specifically, I’d like to move to Paris.

A conversation with Joanne that she’d indeed love to live in Paris and we’ve now got an official time line to move. It’s not tomorrow, it’s not even next year, in fact it’s 5 years away! But the goals that I have created for my online work practices is exactly what will move us to our ultimate destination.

Why am I sharing?

After having this goal for a bit, it recently occurred to me that only my closest friends know of my plan. Why am I hiding it? Especially when it’s something I’m very excited about (we’re already started to learn French, just to prepare). By creating this post and express to all of you what my goal is suddenly, it makes the goal more concrete.

By having my own goal known to the world, perhaps I can inspire you to set a goal that you’re sure you can reach, share a goal you’d like to reach, or put into motion the steps you have to take to reach your goal.

What it Takes

Moving to Paris requires several stepping stones. But I’m happy to tell you that after just 2 years of dedicated blogging, I have one third income that I need to generate to put this move into place for us. After all, reaching the goal of moving to Paris means that Joanne (my wife, if you don’t know :o)) will no longer be working and will take an early retirement.

More than that, having a goal this huge generates dedication, determination, and a need to put myself out there. No, I won’t be asking for money (that is, unless you’d like to freely give it) but instead, use the tools that I already have to create the income that is needed to move and sustain our life once moved.

Keeping Focus

I have set myself up to be reminded of my goal on a near constant basis.

My desktop is the image that I have above of Paris. Several times a day I break to check out the Paris Live webcams. And because we have already started to learn French, random words are thrown out in my conversations with Joanne in an effort to not only learn but utilize my new language.

If you have a goal, how do you motivate and inspire yourself to keep going? What’s your reminder to stay on track?

Sit and Ponder

What do you want to create for yourself online? Not everyone will have something as big as moving to another country and not everyone will want to earn an income that can sustain their household. However, that doesn’t mean that you own personal goals for your blog aren’t just as important and just as valuable.

So, have you thought about some important blogging goals and where you’d like blogging to take you? Would you care to share your goals?