Mapping your tasks onto a timeline

Once you have broken all your tasks down, plan them out on a timeline or calendar of three or six months showing how long each task will take.  Don’t go beyond six months because you will lose focus and there’s a good chance you will want to revise your plan by then anyway. You don’t always need one task to finish before you can plan another one starting and you should look out for when tasks can be concurrent. For example, your website designer can be building your website while you then move onto setting up your video blog, or you can move onto setting up your email newsletter once your leaflets have been sent to print. The tasks for creating a website that we’ve already listed out might take two or three months to complete, so let’s look at the other activities from our example also to work out how long the entire project might take.