Divide Into Daily Tasks
[private].[/private]I briefly mentioned how the act of setting a timeframe for reaching your goals can have dramatic effects on the way you conduct your business. In this section, I want to hone in and examine this concept in more detail and really break it down for you.
Establishing a time limit for reaching your goals is great! However, once you have established your projected completion date it’s important to analyze the different aspects of your project and break them down into bite-size chunks. In other words, you want to break things down into daily tasks.
For example, if your final goal is to have a profitable website up and running within two to three months, you would not want your to-do list to say something like:
1) Build website
2) Get traffic
3) Make money
You will need to dissect these goals into smaller aspects of the project. As the business owner, you need to focus on “managing” your projects, not doing everything yourself.
I’m going to talk a little more about outsourcing in another section, but I want you to realize now that you don’t have to do every task on your own. You can if you like, but being a good project manager can bring your dream to life much sooner than being a micromanager.
Let’s look at the “build website” task first. This could be broken down into several aspects that will formulate a much more acceptable plan of attack. Here are a few aspects of building a website that you, as the project manager, will have to either make happen or oversee:
Graphical design work – header and footer images, promotional graphics (banners etc…)
Layout – creating/choosing a web template that accommodates your type of presentation
Content development – every site needs fresh content, whether it be a simple three-page site consisting of a squeeze page, sales page, and thank you page or a hundred page content site monetized for AdSense and the promotion of affiliate products
There are 100 more smaller aspects of developing a website that could be listed here…
By breaking it all down to finer aspects, you will have a much clearer approach that will allow you to be highly effective, not only in doing your own portion of the work, but also in delegating certain sections of the project to outside contractors (more on this will be covered in the “Outsourcing” section).
The easiest way to think of the concept of “Breaking It Down Into Daily Tasks” is this:
