Setting Goals and Objects and Making Your Plan – Day 6 – Not Eating an Elephant in One Sitting

Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by Samantha Gardner in Life Management, Time Management

Day 6. Ready. Set. Plan it.

Not every second nor every detail. Just break it into bit size chucks you can do to make it happen. 20% of what you do will give you 80% (80/20 Rule) of the results so don’t get hung up with planning it out by the minute or day by day. Take it month by month or even quarterly if you can manage it.

I can hear it now “But How?” Back to an example:

Remember my business category of Professional Development 301 and that this year I wanted to learn and apply Pay Per Click (PPC) to my business.

So first I decide what resources I already have or need to get to get started on this result.

Buy and Study in detail “The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords” by Marshall/Todd – It is the only book that is recommended and listed over and over again on the subject. Read and highlight several times.
Contact 3-5 people who are masters in PPC and ask who they are following and getting their new information from online (Yes – online is always more up to date than books that many times are out of date by the time they get to press on fast moving subjects).
Start following who they are following and get familiar with the jargon .
Start experimenting with the platform .
Later I will pay for someone who is a PPC master to Coach/Consult with me – I like to learn quickly and get results.

That is my first 3 months of 2010 for Learning PPC (yep – the first 3 months I will spend learning). The next 9 months I will spend implementing.

Do I know exactly how? Nope. I need to do my first 3 months of homework first but at the end of March, be sure I will have a plan for the rest of the year and by the end I will have applied it to my business (or business).

You can’t eat the elephant all at once. Take some bites and put the rest in the freezer.

P.S. Ya – I skipped a couple of days of posting here – got sick. Life happens.