Inspired by Rick Beneteau's article, Tackling
Task List, I pushed everything off my desk and onto floor and began making a list of categories of what important tasks for each day might be. Limit them to five, I thought, five at most. Tackling five tasks is do-able. Going for more might cause me to break my resolutions before I even wrote them down.Yours may be different, but this is what I came up with.
Advertising -- a must. It's important to get word out EVERY day. Familiarity, contrary to breeding contempt, makes people take another look.
I looked, but what I was seeing was pile of papers that I had just pushed onto floor. "I've got to get organized," I said to myself. "Ah, that's another one. I've got to get organized." That went on list.
Organize -- if EVERY day I did something towards organizing, I would become organized, right?
What else? Write. I have an ezine. I submit articles to other ezines. I have to write updates to my website. That's a lot of writing. And once I write, it doesn't do any good unless I submit articles to ezines, mail my subscriber list or upload my web pages. There, I have another daily task.
Write/Submit I don't have to write everyday, but I do need to do some task connected with that writing, so write/submit seemed apt.
What now?
Track. Tracking one's advertising is equally as important as doing advertising. Unless you know what results you're getting, how can you create an effective advertising campaign? So tracking is a must.
By that time, I needed to pack off to my class at Diablo Valley College where I was taking a circuit training class. No, that's not a computer science course, it's a combination of weight training and aerobics. After all, computer doesn't give me much exercise.
