{"id":3098,"date":"2011-11-18T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2011-11-11T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T23:53:20","slug":"breaking-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/11\/breaking-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Break down complex issues\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/11\/break-it-down\/\">Breaking big issues into smaller pieces makes things manageable<\/a> because:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>it less daunting to look at small tasks than one huge task (remember the elephant &#8211; I can eat one bite but putting an entire elephant in my mouth is overwhelming!)<\/li>\n<li>you then can earn a <a title=\"Rewards and acknowledgements\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/11\/rewards-and-acknowledgements\/\">series of achievements to feel rewarded and satisfied<\/a>, and see your progress. Working on one huge task means you have to do a lot of work before you can see results<\/li>\n<li>finishing small tasks can sometimes be <a title=\"Take 30 minutes\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/12\/take-30-minutes\/\">fitted into small time slots<\/a> such as between meetings or while you&#8217;re waiting for someone to arrive<\/li>\n<li>you may be able to get others to do parts of the job. For example, when I manage a client&#8217;s annual report I break it into content and design first so I can outsource the design work before breaking the content aspect into sections. I also get my admin support to arrange the printing and to review the designer drafts for any missed corrections.<\/li>\n<li>you can set deadlines for small tasks and therefore make sure you are on track for the big project &#8211; it is hard to know how close you are to finishing and meeting deadlines if the job is just one big task<\/li>\n<li>you will feel less stressed and overwhelmed, you will feel more in control and capable. Feeling good is a worthy aim in itself, but it also makes you work more efficiently and effectively so you will probably finish the project sooner, too<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>What projects have you found easier once you&#8217;ve broken them into manageable pieces?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking big issues into smaller pieces makes things manageable because: it less daunting to look at small tasks than one huge task (remember the elephant &#8211; I can eat one bite but putting an entire elephant in my mouth is overwhelming!) you then can earn a series of achievements to feel rewarded and satisfied, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,53],"tags":[1385,1386,1384],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bit-off-track","category-business-info-tools","tag-break-it-down","tag-project","tag-smaller-tasks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}