So now that you have even thinner slices you need to decide how these slices make you feel.Are they doable? Perhaps some of them are and others aren’t.I f so keep breaking down the ones that feel to big to do until you have a list of small tasks that feel easy to do!
The important thing is to just look at ONE item at a time – not the whole list!
I hope this helps some one with their procrastination at least a little bit!
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Good luck!
Maureen
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Marcus1978
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Absolutely spot on. I'm always breaking things down like this. It's absolutely true, breaking task down into subtasks and subsubtasks makes it so much easier. Then you have just one tiny task to do at a time.
More specifically, when I write blog posts, I break them down into chunks, and when I'm writing each particular chunk, it can be helpful to imagine that a friend has emailed me asking me to explain it to them. So then I write it as if I was writing my email reply to them explaining it. The thing is, the people reading our blog posts are just normal people. None of it needs to win a literary award. It just needs to be readable, helpful, friendly, conversational. We're not writing a doctoral thesis, we're just writing to normal people in plain English.
Even what I have written here in reply to you is fine for part of an article, and it was really easy to write.
More specifically, when I write blog posts, I break them down into chunks, and when I'm writing each particular chunk, it can be helpful to imagine that a friend has emailed me asking me to explain it to them. So then I write it as if I was writing my email reply to them explaining it. The thing is, the people reading our blog posts are just normal people. None of it needs to win a literary award. It just needs to be readable, helpful, friendly, conversational. We're not writing a doctoral thesis, we're just writing to normal people in plain English.
Even what I have written here in reply to you is fine for part of an article, and it was really easy to write.
HeyItsMeLori
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This is a great breakdown of your process that is totally duplicatable! Thank you!
