Well, someone who never did IM before in his life... aiming for 1000$/day wouldn't be that realistic for him aswell.
I aimed for 1$ when I started. After achieving that I increased the aim
You'd be surprised.
Parkinson's Law. It's a law that states:
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
It can be generalized and I believe it works for income.
If you aim for $1/day, you'll only make $1/day.
If you aim for $1000/day, you're more likely to reach $50/day, or even $200/day. Newbie or not.
The problem is people don't want to fail, so by setting these ridiculously low goals they feel successful.
Get used to failure. Learn to love failure.
Aim for $1k/day then fail by only reaching $50/day. I'll take that failure over successfully meeting my $1/day goal. Plus, you'll have learned a lot more because you AIMED for $1k. You planned out what was required for $1k and even though you failed, on your 2nd attempt you'll be able to get closer, maybe to $100.
Another failure, but you learn and keep going. You should always be taking notes in business and marketing. Keep a daily log of general activities as well as project logs with detailed information about what you're doing on each project, and finally keep detailed notes about everything you learn for future reference.
So that's
1) General daily log of activities
2) Detailed project log
3) Categorized notes about everything you've learned from forums, other people *and* your own project failures.
Keep doing that, keep failing, keep taking your notes and you just physically will not be unable to make a full time living online. Simple as that.
The only thing aiming for $1/day then "achieving" that does is give you an ego boost. It's the same reason people come on here and post about how much they're making, what toys they've bought, how many girls they've slept with. People are just fueling the ego. THE EGO WILL NOT MAKE YOU MONEY.
Remove the ego and be a logical, calculated, organized business mind with a sole aim of building a business or keep on making piddly amounts of money and having to work a full time job to support yourself while you do it.