Getting Your Action Plan Into Gear

Posted on December 9, 2005
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Get your Action Plan into gear by drawing up a list of ‘Things To Do’. Then mark them off as you fulfil each task. Your Action Plan should be of equal importance or more than planning your Christmas, birthday, anniversary or wedding gifts.

Could you honestly get away with not bothering to get presents for these special occasions?

Equal importance should be given to your Action Plan. Don’t keep putting off things today and justify it by thinking you could do it tomorrow. There’s no time like the present!

New Year’s Resolutions should be an all year round concept. Then maybe fewer people would be disappointed when the set unrealistic goals which they cannot achieve. Or because they lack the willpower and motivation to carry them out.

Draw up a checklist of ‘Things To Do’ and set a ‘realistic’ time frame in which you would like to complete each task.

I personally do this on a daily to weekly basis, so that I get a rough idea of how many workable tasks I can complete so that my goals setting are workable.

Hmm, you could save that I am a regular goal setter, although there are some tasks which I don’t manage to get around to. Sometime I change my initial goal as time goes by in accordance with the results I expected.

For example:

I wanted to set up a new part of my site for my Practical Marketing Tips, an idea which evolved in early 2005. My first idea was to provide a free opt-in email tips, but I was concerned with email filtering from ISP’s and other email delivery problems.

Secondly I considered setting up a web page, which I actually got around to, well at least the front page announcement and a few web pages of tips.

Again I wasn’t entirely happy with the arrangement.

Finally, with the ever growing Blogosphere and potential to reach my target audience I invested the time and energy to set up THIS VERY BLOG. I have not looked back. Using Wordpress open resource blog has enabled me to get my message over to my readers in a way in which suits me down to the ground.

I got to admit that all of the headaches of extra coding, sorting out plugins and adding stuff to the template were a royal pain in the butt, for someone who is not a programmer or code genie. However, I am willing to learn new things and receive a lot of help and feedback from the Wordpress forum, where other bloggers volunteer to help out with issues on a daily basis.

So in May 2005, Nancy P Redford’s Practical Marketing Tips evolved and is here to stay, so long as my pace maker will allow me.

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Got your Action Plan into gear?

I am still drafting up my long term goals for online work and in my personal life. Will keep you posted of anything major.

Thanks for reading,
Nancy

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