Reading a Tuesday Tip from a few weeks ago about Chipping away at Massive Tasks" (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/9278/), I decided to try it out.

I am currently writing a guide to running a community group which has three parts. Part 1 is 3000 words long, so "Write societies' guide" is a very daunting task! It's been a recurring action items weekly for nearly three months, which is clearly a problem. So I need to break it down.

But "Write some of the societies' guide" isn't really detailed enough for me, I can't define what that means. So what I've done is I've looked through the component parts of the Guide and scheduled them in instead over a week. So I now have "Write 'Planning an event'" due on Monday, "Write 'Evaluating an event'" on Tuesday, "Write 'Managing a meeting'" on Wednesday and so on. This breaks my task down into manageable, definable tasks that I can get done and tick off my tasklist with a nice sense of completion. And if I do it all, I'll get my guide finished in just over a week!