A friend of mine has suggested I get back to writing more
articles. It seems I have let my article writing be forgotten as I have
been concentrating on my blog recently. When you are working online, it
is very easy to get sidetracked. I have fallen victim to my own worst
enemy, lack of planning. Without planning your daily schedule, you will
lose track of your most valuable asset, TIME.
Planning a schedule of daily tasks can keep you on track and on the right road to being successful. It doesn't matter what you are marketing, developing, or investigating a plan of action will be a key to you achieving your desired goals.
I like to call it breaking your primary goals in to baby goals. This is the easiest and fastest way for you to set up a daily schedule. For example: my lack of article writing could have been avoided if I had only established a schedule which included "write one article" with a certain amount of time allotted for this goal.
It is a personal preference how detailed you want to make your daily schedule. I find when I have an hour by hour plan, I tend to get a substantial amount of work accomplished. Without it, I can easily be distracted by just about anything.
Let's use a quick example of how you can break down a yearly goal in to a daily schedule. In this example I will keep it simple without variables which could affect the results. You have a yearly goal of earning an extra $10,000. This equals approximately $834 a month, $192 a week, or $27.50 a day. You market a product which earns you $5 per sale. You will need to make 2000 sales in a year to accomplish your goal. By continuing to break this down in to smaller goals, you need to average 5.5 sales per day. Your average sales ratio is 30% so you need to approach approximately 17 new prospects each day to accomplish your yearly goal. Each prospect will take up 20 minutes of your time, which means you need 5.7 hours per day to talk to clients. If you are a self-employed sales person, developing a strict guideline for your time should be a top priority, as your time is your most valuable asset.
You can see by this example, if you take a major goal and break it in to do-able daily tasks, something which may seem out of reach becomes a daily routine. For me, I need to set aside a half hour a day to do some writing. This will help keep me focused and will prioritize my writing instead of leaving it to the last thing I do if I have the time.
I hope I have conveyed the importance of setting up a plan of action including a daily schedule to accomplish this plan. Take your major goals and break them in to baby goals. I think you will be happy with the results.
Planning a schedule of daily tasks can keep you on track and on the right road to being successful. It doesn't matter what you are marketing, developing, or investigating a plan of action will be a key to you achieving your desired goals.
I like to call it breaking your primary goals in to baby goals. This is the easiest and fastest way for you to set up a daily schedule. For example: my lack of article writing could have been avoided if I had only established a schedule which included "write one article" with a certain amount of time allotted for this goal.
It is a personal preference how detailed you want to make your daily schedule. I find when I have an hour by hour plan, I tend to get a substantial amount of work accomplished. Without it, I can easily be distracted by just about anything.
Let's use a quick example of how you can break down a yearly goal in to a daily schedule. In this example I will keep it simple without variables which could affect the results. You have a yearly goal of earning an extra $10,000. This equals approximately $834 a month, $192 a week, or $27.50 a day. You market a product which earns you $5 per sale. You will need to make 2000 sales in a year to accomplish your goal. By continuing to break this down in to smaller goals, you need to average 5.5 sales per day. Your average sales ratio is 30% so you need to approach approximately 17 new prospects each day to accomplish your yearly goal. Each prospect will take up 20 minutes of your time, which means you need 5.7 hours per day to talk to clients. If you are a self-employed sales person, developing a strict guideline for your time should be a top priority, as your time is your most valuable asset.
You can see by this example, if you take a major goal and break it in to do-able daily tasks, something which may seem out of reach becomes a daily routine. For me, I need to set aside a half hour a day to do some writing. This will help keep me focused and will prioritize my writing instead of leaving it to the last thing I do if I have the time.
I hope I have conveyed the importance of setting up a plan of action including a daily schedule to accomplish this plan. Take your major goals and break them in to baby goals. I think you will be happy with the results.
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