The power of breaking projects down into tasks.

As home office workers we have to be skilled in time management. For most of us, there is nobody else who is going to do that for us.

Time management is a huge topic and central to productivity.

One tool we use to manage our time is a daily To-Do list.

Daily To-Do lists can be a fine thing. But they can also work against us.

One key is to ensure that the tasks you add to your list really are tasks.

What do I mean? I mean that sometimes we add a task that isn't a task at all – it's a project.

And then we wonder why that "task" is carried over from one day's list to the next.

It never gets done, or even started on, simply because it is too big.

And the longer it stays on the list, the more discouraged we become by our inability to get the job completed.

The trick here is take that project off your list, break it down into bite-sized tasks, and then add the tasks to your daily list, one at a time.

Suddenly, the impossible has become doable.

And we feel a lot better about the progress we are making.