How can I break down long-term plans into manageable targets?

[Snickerdoodles]

This is a bit of a random question but I’d be interested to hear your thoughts and advice on this please.

I’d just like to ask how you keep track of all of your projects and plans outside of work?

At the moment, outside of my job, I do hospital radio volunteering and also write a blog. I haven’t blogged much lately, but I really want to get back into it.

Although both of these things are hobbies, I do take them seriously. I really enjoy doing both things and want them to eventually become more than just a casual hobby and to be something that I do seriously alongside my day job.

I’m just unsure about where and how to structure my long-term plans for the radio show and the blog - how do I break them down into manageable chunks and targets and where do I record them?

Sounds silly, but I feel like I’ll feel a lot more organised and confident once I do this.

Any tips please?

You schedule them like a job.
Do you have specific goals in mind? If so take them set a date and work backwards.

If you want a blog post a week set a day for posting, have your ideas etc by x day, research the next, write bulk the next, write details the next, edit and proofread the next then post. If you want more often then do shorter versions and just an hour to write and hour to edit then post.

All you really need is a notebook look up bullet journals which may also help here with scheduling and ideas etc.

Set time aside and set time aside for rest

Break down all jobs into chunks that you can do at one sitting - even to the level of "get together the things I need to be able to sit down and plan the next step". It's demotivating to work hard on something then find you haven't done enough to cross off even one job on the list.

Maybe think how long each bit will take, and highlight short jobs, so if you have a spare 15 mins, you can easily find a job to fit.

And if finding time to rest and relax is hard, put that down as a job too.

I was going to say start a bullet journal to break down and track.