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Project Breakdown Mapper

Turn a scary project into a map of small, doable chunks.

How to use it

  1. Write the project in the centre.
  2. Branch into 3–5 big pieces.
  3. Break one piece into next-actions you could start today.

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Print at 100% / Actual size and set margins to None. Turn on borderless printing if your printer offers it — the card is designed to bleed to the edge of the paper.

Preview — prints at exactly 3 × 5 in (76 × 127 mm).

Project Breakdown Mapper

Turn a scary project into a map of small, doable chunks

  1. 1Write the project in the centre.
  2. 2Branch into 3–5 big pieces.
  3. 3Break one piece into next-actions you could start today.

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Cut along the dashed line. Check that your print dialog says 100 percent, not “Fit to page”.

You cannot start a project; you can only start a step. Make steps.

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Turn a scary project into a map of small, doable chunks.

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