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Practice makes perfect.

The process of choosing next steps for your project should be automated so that it can be done without a second thought once you have free time.

Analyze the context, time, energy and urgency of tasks.

As the classics go: “choose your tasks by these criteria: context, time, amount of energy and urgency”.

In my case the context is not important. The key point is that I will do my project not in the bus or in a car, but at my computer.

As for time, Thursday I’ll have 6 hours of available time, Friday - only one.

Energy. Not easy to plan this parameter two days ahead, so let’s suppose there’ll be an overflow and I’ll be able to do any jobs, no matter how complex and humdrum.

Urgency. Now this requires thinking.

My goal - to achieve passive income of around 3000$ a month. This can be done in several ways. One of the most perspective is selling soft. The other is to get profit from Internet advertising (Google AdSense).

How to understand which one’s a more pressing matter?

I reason this way: both soft and ads (which means drawing large audiences to websites) take fairly same amount of time and energy. One needs to stick to either thing and focus on doing it. So which of the proposed ways is better?

Additional factors help reach the decision. I do soft with a partner. Besides, not just a partner, but an old friend of the family. I can’t let him down.

At the same time advertising is something which is not all that clear to me. Drawing audience to tradeleadcenter.com was not too successful. The analysis brought me to the idea of optimizing the site structure substantially which required time and energy comparable to developing soft.

So, weighing the pros and cons of both of the variants, I chose soft (the medical application). And not simply chose, but decided to leave it my only active project for some time.

Sorting out next steps.

So now my task is to sort out the next immediate steps for Thursday and Friday on the EsculapPro project.

The translation of the manual to English is still undone. The translator just disappeared somewhere, though Thursday I’m hoping to reach him.

Anyway, the problem is there.

I use the GTDInbox plugin for Firefox with GMail (http://www.gtdinbox.com/). Click Project->EsculapPro->Actions.

I have 6 immediate tasks on the list, some of which got there only this week:

-which colors are medical? the site design should use those colors (Internet analysis required, 2 hours)

-make tthe precise list of what will be bundled with the full version and what will stay out of the free one (I need to consult my partner for this, next week)

-register at SWREG and RegSoft (2 hours)

-find out whether the registrar can offer a 30-day repayment gurantee (30 min after registration)

-Choose the CMS for the website (Internet analysis required, 2 hours)

-SRS EleDoc - required or not? (discussing with my partner, next week)

All the tasks, except from the ones postponed to next week can be completed in the nearest couple of days. I place them into the plan.

Insert the immedeate steps into the calendar.

Now there’s just the Google Calendar to take care of:

-Hand the Esculap manual to the translator - Thursday (30 min)

-What colors are medical - Thursday (2h)

-Register at SWREG and RegSoft - Thursday (2h)

-Find out whether the registrar can offer a 30-day repayment gurantee - Thursday (30 min)

-Choose the CMS for the website - Friday (2h)

And there we have the complete task list for the project. I’ll do my best to complete them till weekend.