Firstly, an apology
I wanted this to be to you a few days ago but with holidays and a very intense course on change management, I decided to wait until I could do this justice.
Long, Theological and Boring
That is what my drama teacher often told me when I wrote something to perform. With that in my head, I will try to make this short, contemporary and interesting. 😎
📆 The Planning Stage
We’ve got everything we need to start putting pen to planning paper.
Now that you have decided on your priorities, it’s time to lock them into your timeline and calendar.
In the last edition, I said you couldn’t do everything … yet! But you can plan for it all to ensure you capture everything you need to do.
The planning we’ll look at will be made up of two levels:
Level 1️⃣
The Prime Priority (and others) - the significant tasks you want to achieve with a considered timeframe for each.
Level 2️⃣
Drip feed actions - smaller actions that can be done daily/frequently or automated. These are actions you make a part of your day. Like a morning routine made up of specific goal-focused actions.
It might look something like this:
How 🤷♂️
Set your goal and work backwards.
If my goal is to earn $100 per month online within six months, I can use several channels.
Add a payment option to Substack, allowing people to contribute.
Work to increase my earnings on Medium by increasing my readership and people subscribing to Medium.
Create an e-book and post it online for people to purchase.
Increase my YouTube presence to earn more through views.
To achieve any, or all of those in six months, what do I need to do?
Notice in the above example the actions are written as verbs, things to do. This makes it clear what is needed and when.
You can now create a review based on your plans.
Did you:
Learn copywriting by 11 June?
Turn the blog posts into an e-book by 18 June?
What is your goal and your timeline?
The template is here if you find it useful. It is relatively easy to replicate, however, if you would like an editable version, let me know and I’ll send it to you.