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Do you keep having trouble getting a project finished or even started?  If so, you might find this process useful, it has definitely helped me…

I don’t know about you, but when I used to work for someone else, I didn’t have a problem getting things done. I was given a job or a project to get done within a certain time frame…and it would get done!

Now that I work for myself, I’m not tied to someone else’s deadlines or expectations. This has benefits but also drawbacks, because it’s easy to jump from one project idea to the next without getting anything done.

List All The Tasks You Need To Do

To help overcome this problem I give myself a list of tasks to get done, and put a realistic but fairly tight deadline to each one.

I’ll create an Excel spreadsheet for each project and list down all the things I need to do to get a new product and or website online and ready.

Next to each task I’ll put my time deadline, then a box where I’ll put a ‘Yes’ in when it’s done. At the end I’ll also write in ‘on time’ or how long I missed the deadline by.

This helps me to focus a bit better, and when I see too many missed deadlines it makes me try a bit harder, to get the next ones in on time. 

Once the site is up and running, I’ll also list down the marketing tasks that I will be doing on-going, so I can keep tabs on what I need to do.

A System You Can Repeat Over and Over…

The good thing about creating these lists is that it helps you create a system you can duplicate.

For example, lets say you want to set up a new website for a content site, or maybe a private label ebook you want to sell.

The process for setting up and marketing a site for one niche is likely to be very similar for most other markets. If you list down all the tasks you need to do with your first site, you can then use the exact same process to set up the next one even faster.

If you look back at what you’ve done, you could probably move a few things in a different order to get things done faster, or more efficiently.  It’s all a learning process, that gets refined more and more each time.

You end up with a fine tuned ‘fill in the blanks’ system, which is easy to follow and stick to. 

If you don’t have a system or a list of tasks to follow and get done, it’s very easy to get distracted by some idea that pops into your head, or some email that hits your inbox.

If your plan is just in your head, it’s very easy to abandon it and jump to the next big thing.  But if you have things down on paper, or in a spreadsheet that you work on and view each day, it makes it harder to leave projects unfinished, and easier to get them done.

Start doing this today, and my guess is that by the end of the week or month, you will look back and see that you’ve got so much more done.

Jason Lewis