Most goals set by new partners share one flaw: they are outcomes, not actions. "Earn X per month" and "build a team of ten" are results, and results are downstream of things you do not fully control - other people's decisions, timing, luck.
Goals you control are the ones that survive contact with a bad month.
Start with the honest question
Before any target, answer this: what do you actually want from this?
The three common answers lead to completely different plans.
"I want cheaper cosmetics." Entirely legitimate, and the simplest to achieve - it requires ordering for yourself and nothing else. If this is your answer, most business advice is irrelevant to you, and pursuing it will only make you feel behind.
"I want some extra income alongside my job." This needs a modest, repeatable routine and a long horizon.
"I want this to become significant." This needs consistency over years and a genuine interest in working with people, not just products.
Pretending the third answer while wanting the first is the most common source of disappointment in this business.
Set process goals, not outcome goals
Rewrite every target as something you do:
| Instead of | Set |
|---|---|
| Earn a certain amount | Contact five people this month who asked me about products |
| Build a team | Have three honest conversations per month with people who might be interested |
| Know the catalogue | Learn eight products a month in one category |
| Grow sales | Place one order per cycle and follow up with anyone who ordered through me |
Process goals have a property outcome goals lack: you can tell on the last day of the month whether you did them, and the answer does not depend on anyone else.
Pick a horizon that matches reality
- One month is long enough to build a habit, too short to judge results
- Three months is the first honest checkpoint - enough cycles to see whether anything is compounding
- A year is where an outcome goal starts to make sense
Judging a first month by income is like judging a language course by week two. It tells you nothing except how impatient you are.
Make them small enough to be boring
The reliable failure mode is ambition. "I will speak to two people a week" gets done. "I will grow this aggressively" produces a burst, a crash and a period of avoiding the whole subject.
A useful test: if the goal does not feel slightly too easy, it is probably too big. You are optimising for the twelfth month, not the first.
Write down what you will not do
Constraints are part of a good plan:
- I will not message people who have not shown interest
- I will not buy stock
- I will not spend money on third-party training
- I will not check results more than monthly
- I will stop if it is not enjoyable after six months
That last one matters. Deciding in advance what would make you walk away is what stops this becoming an obligation you resent.
Review monthly, adjust quarterly
Once a month, ask three questions:
- Did I do the things I said I would do?
- Did any of them produce anything?
- Is this still enjoyable?
Change the plan quarterly, not monthly. Constant adjustment is indistinguishable from having no plan.
On income targets specifically
Be sceptical of any number anyone gives you, including numbers presented as typical. Earnings depend on effort, time, market, and the people around you, and the honest answer to "how much can I make" is that it varies enormously and starts near zero for everyone.
The structure of the compensation plan is published by Faberlic itself, and that is where the mechanics should be read - not from a summary, and never from someone's screenshot.
If your goal is the first one on the list - cheaper products for yourself - you have already achieved it by registering, and the rest of this is optional. There is no shame in that being the whole plan.
More on what the first months realistically look like in the business section.