Billy Blogger and His 2010 Objectives

Billy Blogger was really fired up on January 1st. He’d read all his favorite blogger’s sites, and they were all talking about objectives. 2010 was going to be the year of his breakthrough as a blogger, so he diligently set some solid objectives for his blog in the coming year. He posted them to his own site, and even added them to comments on other sites.

They focused on traffic objectives, the aim to get his first E Book out, increasing his Twitter followers, generating some significant income and writing some fantastic guest posts. For eight days he thought of little else, visualizing his future and how his lifestyle would change as he achieved each……….

………..And then he got caught up in the daily grind of his blogging work. He stopped looking at his objectives, and went back to trying to stay on top of his inbox and ever increasing to do list. His blog was back in control of his working day.

I know this hasn’t happened to any of you. But just in case it does one day, here’s a quick strategy for you:

To Do List

I know you write or type one of these every day. I do mine each night for the next day, because it means I can sleep with a clear mind. I suspect, like me, you get satisfaction from setting yourself a reasonable list of the jobs you want to do on a given day, and that you tick or cross out each with a flourish! I love doing that, and I feel great when I clear every one.

But What About the Objectives?

Here comes the technique: When you’ve written your to do list, open your list of objectives. Read each and ask:

“What am I doing TODAY to move the needle on this objective?”

If you can point to a task and say “This!” - all is good.

If you can’t see a single task that does contribute to one of your objectives, then you need to add one. It doesn’t have to be a mammoth task, it can be a five minute job.

If you can do something, even a very little something, on each of your objectives, every single day, then you’re far more likely to nail them overall.

Make sense?

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