MBA866 How To Stay Focused with Large Projects
The $100 MBA Show
Omar Zenhom
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show! Your business podcast is packed with practical useful |
| 0:15.9 | business lessons. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar and home. I'm also |
| 0:21.4 | the co-founder of the $100 MBA and Webinar Ninja. |
| 0:25.0 | And in today's lesson, we're going to go really deep when it comes to dealing with large projects. |
| 0:30.0 | If you're working on a large project that's going to take you three months or more, whether that's a new product or new offering, that's considered a large project. |
| 0:38.0 | And when you're dealing with a project that takes that much time, there's so much to do and it can often get overwhelming it's |
| 0:44.2 | hard to stay focused it's actually easier to work on a project that takes a |
| 0:48.3 | week because you see the deadline you see the end in sight you have enough pressure for you to be on |
| 0:54.0 | task and stay focused so you can hit that deadline but when your deadline's like |
| 0:57.8 | 12 weeks 15 weeks six months even it's kind of easy to take it easy. |
| 1:03.6 | Because six months seems like so far away, |
| 1:05.8 | I got plenty of time. |
| 1:07.2 | As human beings, we just have horrible judgment |
| 1:08.8 | when it comes to long-term planning. |
| 1:11.1 | We either underestimate how much we can get done in a long period of time, |
| 1:15.3 | or we underestimate how quickly that time goes by. So in today's lesson, we're going to go deep |
| 1:20.1 | and learn how to stay focused in a large project and we're going to keep it practical. |
| 1:25.0 | We've been working on a large project for the past year. |
| 1:28.6 | Webinar Ninja 5.0, it's our all new version of Webinar Ninja and that's a large project and when you're working |
| 1:34.4 | on something that's going to take you a year plus you gotta have a strategy you gotta have |
| 1:38.6 | some way to stay focused so you're working towards that goal so you know that every day when you get to work you have a certain task to do so you can chip away to get to where you need to be. |
| 1:49.0 | And we're going to begin from day one, what you do on day one of this three, four, five, six month project and how to break |
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