Personal Category:

You put anything outside of your business into this category. If you have to go to the gym, meet a friend, attend your child’s play (see what I did there) go for a walk, meet the parents (again) or even if you meditate, for example, they all go into this category.

Ground-breaking stuff eh?

Writing Category:

If you do email marketing, you obviously have to write messages to send to your list. If you’re blogging you need to write articles for your website – and if you write guest posts – they go into this category.

Content Category:

Anything from creating a video for YouTube to working on a report, or a new eBook, goes in here. Sometimes certain tasks within the “content” category will overlap with the “writing” category, but they’re not exactly the same. You decide which task goes into each one.

Traffic Category:

This should be the most important category on your list. Anything from social media direct marketing, right on up to paid advertising and the likes of forum posting will go into this category.

Although guest posting, for example, can be thought of as a traffic generation strategy, the results are not immediate; therefore you keep that task for the “writing’ category.

Education Category:

Procrastination and Information overload stem from using this category too much.

But now, you only use it for specific tasks.

For instance, if you have a webinar to attend or a marketing video to watch – they get placed into this category.

Note: You MUST place at least “one” task into each category the night before – and you MUST complete each one the next day.

The order at which you approach each task is entirely up to yourself.

This is a lot more powerful than just writing a list of “things to do” on a whiteboard (piece of paper – whatever) than you may think.

This way of organising your “to do” list forces your mind to dump out a wider scope of ideas to work on.

On the next page I will show you an example of a daily schedule…