Woo Hoo!! Half way!!

Planning Ahead

Well today is the half way point of this challenge and I must admit I'm thoroughly loving it.  Writing every day is really quite liberating as it gives me a break from the day to day work load.

I would not have been able to get this far without planning ahead and this is why I've chosen to cover this topic today.

I get really fed up of hearing people moan about things not working or not succeeding.  There is so much negativity about.  But when you take time to speak to these people they are all taking the same path and that is this.

Idea conceived, idea put into action.

Now I can see what the biggest problem is here. There is no forward planning.  Now while many ideas will come to fruition with this strategy there are plenty that will fail.  And this leads to low moral, dejection and increased negativity.  So lets look at how we can be more positive and successful.

Never a truer word spoken!

Lets take this series of blogs for example.  This was a concept that was first thought about back in November and I thought it would be a great way to start the year, become more disciplined and write more. I then shelved the idea and revisited it on the first of January.  I wrote my first post and spent a couple of hours planning the other 30 days of the month.

I knew that writing every post myself was a little unrealistic so I decided to have a percentage of guest bloggers.  I thought initially 10% but its sitting at approximately 20%. So I contacted those I wanted to post for me and scheduled them into the plan. I then decided what topics I wanted to cover, where did my knowledge fall?

So I brainstormed this and ended up with a good list of topics some of which would extend to more than one day but I figured that this was better than writing too much for a day. So I had a list of topics scheduled into days and began to write and schedule my posts to publish.  I write most days but over weekends or for days that I know I will be busy I schedule my posts to publish.

But the point I'm making is that if you plan ahead and break down things into bite size manageable pieces and outsource what you don't want to deal with things instantly become easier to handle and have an increased chance of success.  Yes this is echoed through a lot of what I've written but it is the key to being successful in life or business.  We all have different strengths lets work to our own strengths and life becomes easier, less stressful and more successful!