One of the keys to success is to make it a habit to plan your daily to-do lists in advance (such as on Sunday evenings to prepare for the work week). Here are the steps:
Review your overall business goals. Your to-do lists shouldn’t be random. Instead, they should be based directly on your business goals. For example, if one of your goals is to increase your list by 25%, then you’d create a plan for doing this and build your to-do lists around achieving this goal.
Prioritize the business goals you want to achieve in the next few weeks. You probably have several goals you want to achieve, such as grow your list, get more traffic, create a product, etc. You need to prioritize your goals so that you can build to-do lists around the goals that are most important to you.
SIDE NOTE: Be sure your goals are measurable and specific. For example, don’t just say you want to “get more traffic.” Instead, be specific about how much traffic you want to get and by what date you want to achieve the goal.
Create a list of tasks you need to complete in order to achieve these goals. Once you know which goals are most important, then you need to list all the tasks you need to do to achieve those goals.
For example, let’s suppose one of your top goals is to start building a list. The tasks involved in this goal include:
- Doing market research to see what people in your niche want.
- Creating a lead magnet based on this market research.
- Inserting an in-demand backend offer inside the lead magnet.
- Getting a reputable autoresponder.
- Creating a compelling lead page.
- Writing and uploading an initial autoresponder series.
- Testing your lead page and emails.
- Sending traffic to your lead page.
Next…
Break down each task into bite-size tasks (so that they’re not overwhelming). Some of the tasks on your list may be activities that take days or weeks to complete. You’ll want to break these big tasks into smaller tasks. Not only is this less overwhelming, but there’s also a sense of accomplishment when you cross an item off your list.
For example, a big task might be to “set up a website.” You can break this down into smaller tasks such as:
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- Get a domain.
- Secure webhosting.
- Change the domain nameservers to point to the new host.
- Download the WP files at WordPress.org.
…And so on. Rather than a big task that may take one or more days to complete, you now have mini-steps that take as little as a few minutes.
Estimate how long it will take you to complete each step. If you’re not sure how long something will take, be generous with your estimate. It’s better to over-estimate the time than under-estimate.
Create your daily to-do lists based on these goals, tasks and related steps. Now that you know exactly what you want to accomplish, you have a plan for doing so, and you’ve estimated the time it takes to complete these steps, you can create your daily to-do lists. You can use a mobile app or traditional pen and paper, whatever works best for you.
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