Updated January 8, 2025
NYC Elevate is a networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals.
I often talk about Elevate being a gold mine, and most people think gold mining means that the miner will get large nuggets worth millions of dollars.
But the reality of modern gold mining requires sifting 2000 pounds of dirt and sand to get just a few grams of gold, but if you did that hour after hour; day after day; you could make millions.
However, the most important thing that we all need to understand about gold mining is that you can’t just stare at the dirt and hope gold ends up in your pocket.
So what’s the first step for running our profitable gold mine here at Elevate in 2025?
We should think about a proper return on investment and setting our goals appropriately.
Next, we have to factor how much time we will have to invest.
In my case, as a hyperactive Elevator, I invest about 6 hour per week by:
- Preparing a good commercial for this meeting
- Attending this meeting every week
- Picking out 3 guests to network with each week
- Having 6 – 121s per month
- Leading our monthly PHD meeting
- Going to at least one power team meeting each month
- Implementing one new advanced make more money tactic per month
Notice my goal setting for Elevate does not include a dollar amount. That’s out of my control.
Repeating that, I said that my goal setting for Elevate does not include a dollar amount because that’s out of my control.
However, what’s in my control is how active I can be in doing these things, and how well prepared I am when participating.
Remember, when the gold miner sets their yearly goals, they don’t write down ‘stare at the dirt.’
And they don’t say that their goal is one million dollars.
They set a goal of something under their control like ‘process 2000 pounds of dirt per hour.’
So your action item for this week is to write down the networking goals under your control for 2025, and then execute day after day, hour after hour so you can process your 2000 pounds of proverbial dirt per hour.
If you do that, I guarantee that you’ll get more referrals; get more gold and…and make more money.
