**ZERO TO HERO** #4. Planning & Controlling
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A. Hello amigos,
a. If you are reading this, I’d like to take a moment and say thank you for sparing your time. I made a decision to give structure to my posts, so it’s more readable for you and easier for me to make more frequent entries.
𝐒𝐎𝐎, 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐘 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐒.
My posts will consist of 6 sections:
𝐴. 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜
𝐵. 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 10-ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘
𝐶. 𝐾𝑒𝑦 𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠
𝐷. 𝑀𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑇𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑠
𝐸. 𝑇𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 10 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠
𝐹. 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠
Below you can see the whole structure →
B. Review of last 10-hours hours of work
a. Did I complete set tasks?
i. _______
b. How many of them did I complete?
i. _______
c. Was the time allotted for each task enough?
i. _______
d. Were they really important?
i. _______
e. 3 things to become more effective.
1.
2.
3.
C. Key Takeaways
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
D. Most Important Tasks
a. What is the One Thing I can be doing such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
i. _______
b. What is the second most important thing?
i. 123
E. Tasks for the next 10 hours
a. 1st hour — Amazon reviews research
b. 2nd hour — Crafting a compelling copy for my product
c. 3rd hour — Finishing up my Shopify store and going live
d. 4th hour — Finishing up my Shopify store and going live
e. 5th hour — Setting up all the apps
f. 6th hour — Setting up FB pixel and Google Analytics
g. 7th hour — Setting up social media accounts and posting content
h. 8th hour — Setting up social media accounts and posting content
i. 9th hour — Creating 3 creatives for my marketing campaign.
j. 10th hour — Creating 3 creatives for my marketing campaign.
F. Notes (max 150 words)
a. Anvar with you again, here in my office drinking hot milk coffee listening to soothing sea sound. It’s been a while since my last entry. I realized my blog entries are taking my a lot of time (an hour or more) to write which I find ineffective. And as I’m not competing in being the best writer, I decided to create a template that I will follow for this project. Hopefully, that will substantially lower the workload and give a structure to my posts.
A few words about my project progress…
I’ve put in exactly 40 hours of work so far. Looking back, I’m realizing that the last 25 hours have not been used in the most productive way. A few hours were spent researching payments & credit cards for my store and watching ecom video tutorials (regret doing that as the return on those activities is minimal right now, I’m better off sticking to the highest priority tasks). I’m finding rather challenging prioritizing things and not being swayed by unimportant things. Thus, I’m gonna implement a planning & controlling framework to deal with my project.
There will be 10-hour sessions in between reviews/project course adjustments.
Every 10 hours of work done I will be analyzing the completed workload and make adjustments/plans for the next 10 hours.