1. How I Get Stuff Done
as a ProBlogger

2. What You'll Learn
● Essential Rules
● Essential Tools
● Essential Roles
● Essential Commitments

3. Essential
Rules

4. Rule #1
Embrace Chaos
You Can Never Really Get it All Done.
Success is about doing the right thing, not about
doing everything right. -Gary Keller

5. Rule #2
Create a Stop Doing List
Get on the NO train
“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’
re not going to do.” -John Carmack

6. Rule #3
Work for Yourself FIRST
Willpower has a limited battery life

7. Rule #4
What Gets Scheduled,
Gets Done
What isn't scheduled, isn't real.
“People do not decide their futures, they decide
their habits, and their habits determine their
futures.” -F.M. Alexander

8. Rule #5
Divorce Planning and
Doing
Never mix planning with doing

9. Essential
Tools

10. Evernote
●Capture everything!
●Create strategic notebooks
●Create your own workflow
●Use the new reminders feature

11. Google Calendar
●Schedule everything!
●Create an editorial calendar
●Carve out focus sessions
●Set planning sessions

12. Google Docs
●Spreadsheet planning
●Create PowerPoint Slides
●Create PDF reports or ebooks

13. Essential
Roles

14. Remember:
Separate Planning
from Doing

15. CBO vs. Blog Worker
(Chief Blogging Officer)

16. Chief Blogging Officer
●Create a Master Planning Document
○Step 1. Idea Incubation List
○Step 2. Top 5 Projects List
■ Your AAAC List (Avoid at All Costs)
○Step 3. Your 12 Month Plan
○Step 4. Project tasks in waiting
●Create a Master Tasks Pool (Notebook)

17. Blog Worker
●Create a "This Week" task list
●Have a "Top 5 Today" list
●Every task has a single action
●Carve out focus sessions

18. Essential
Commitments

19. Calendar Time!
3 Essential Commitments
●Time Block Your Time Off
●Time Block Your Focus Time
○Consider Early Morning
●Time Block Your Planning
○Weekly Review
○Pick Your Top 5 the night before