How to plan a month of content in one afternoon
Planning a month sounds like a big-company task. In practice it is four steps, and most of the time gets burned on the first because people try to do all four at once.
Why the single afternoon works
Every time you sit down to write one post, the first ten minutes go to remembering what you already covered and deciding the topic. Thirty posts, thirty times that cost.
In a single afternoon, that cost is paid once. And there is a hidden gain: with the whole month in front of you, you notice you covered the same thing three times and price not once.
The four steps, in this order
The order matters. Swapping two of them is what turns the afternoon into a night.
- Themes: which pillars and at what weight this month. Fifteen minutes.
- Ideas: one line per post, writing nothing yet. Forty minutes.
- Distribution: spread across days and networks. Twenty minutes.
- Writing: the texts, one after another. The rest of the afternoon.
Do not write while you are having ideas
This is the costliest mistake. You jot down a good idea, start writing the post, polish it, and forty minutes later you have one post and no list. The two tasks use different parts of your head.
In the ideas step, one line per post and move on. "Delivery time", "why I use this flour", "last week's cake". Nothing more than that.
Leave gaps on purpose
A month packed to the last day does not survive the first unusual week. Leave two or three days empty: they take whatever happens, and the post you will want to make mid-month.
And if nothing happens, a gap in the calendar is not a problem. It beats a rushed post published to tick a box.
The first three steps are what ReadyMonth does on its own, and the fourth arrives as a draft. The afternoon becomes a review.