I believe I’ve figured out another reason I’ve been having so much trouble getting things accomplished since Day 27. At Day 27, your to-do list is no longer a linear progression. It’s a ring of tasks, or several rings of tasks, clustered around everything you’ve done up to that point.
Once you hit the phase where you need to do lots of small tasks to bring traffic to your sites, it becomes overwhelming. There is so much to do to promote your sites, especially if you’re using free software and other free, labor-intensive methods. Multiple sites compound the problem.
I went back over the training from Day 27 forward and discovered I’d jumped over a very powerful but simple tool to help visualize everything that needs to be done. Dan’s mind map technique. He starts with his main phrase in the middle of the page, then branches out from that main phrase with the first site having a cloud or cluster of primary tasks around it. Those are posts on the site. Then that cloud branches out to everything that’s been done or needs to be done. Each big thing that needs doing gets it’s own cloud or cluster of tasks from promotions and list building to adding other sites with related long-tail phrases, to writing articles and back-linking.
There is free software for this, but you should start on paper until you get using the technique down clearly in your mind. One free software program is FreeMind by Source Forge. There are others as well. Just search for free flow charting or mind mapping or project mapping software.
So, when in doubt, dump making lists and draw a map (picture) of what you’ve done and what you still need to do. Then your to-do list will become much clearer and easier to manage.
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