Close your eyes and hang on to your ass with both hands!

I've just made a very large and PUBLIC commitment (here).  I've got just enough time to meet the commitment, but it'll be balls-to-the-wall for the next three weeks. I've completed the outline upon which will be built the Manifesto, Toolbox, and essays that are punctuating the re-launch.  Good progress, but still... YIKES!

1. Focus
• Take on only one major challenge at a time
• Minimize to eliminate anxiety and overwhelm
• How to find what's most important to you
2. Define
• Setting your sights: A specific outcome
• Specify to eliminate ambiguity, excuses, drifting
3. Make a Plan
• Intense, time-limited research
• (like I did with Think Traffic and ViperChill)
• Use free resources to get a broad overview (blogs, Wikipedia, etc.)
• Work forward and backwards - how do you get where you want to go?
• What milestones might you expect to see?
• Make a brief, rough written guide
• Make a minimalist checklist - what's the bare minimum needed to start?
• Don't buy something to get started, unless 100% necessary (it won't be)
• Your aim is to make it to your first milestone
• What are the first two actions?
• What obstacles do you expect?  How will you handle them?
4. Taking Action
• This is where most people flounder (but... having the previous steps in place make taking action immeasurably easier)
• First Action:  Do it NOW.  Really, actually NOW.
• Next Action:  Do it NOW, too.  Then figure out what the next two actions are.
• Having trouble getting going?  Break it down, down, down
5. Be Accountable
• Most people need a check against laziness
• Methods:  journal (private, public), partner, community, advocate (spouse, friend, etc.)
• What have _I_ used for accountability?
6. Everything is an experiment: how to fail successfully
• Failure preceeds success 99 times out of 100
• Paradigm shift:  Failure and success in an experiment
• Everything is an experiment.  That is, an opportunity to learn.
7. Organize - Minimize - Optimize:  The Blueprint
• A quick summary of all of the above