In this episode we'll talk about list making and how it can reduce our anxiety and increase our relative levels of happiness.

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well, Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps Big Changes where I share simple research-back

strategies you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and one

thing I love doing is creating lists, but it turns out this is actually a very good thing

because list-making is one of the most beneficial habits

you or I can add to our toolkit. Now best selling author James Altichir is well

known for a suggestion that people should try to list 10

ideas every single day in order to become what he calls an idea machine. More on

that in a future episode, but first, let's look at some of the benefits

listmaking can have on our health. There's a reason that articles written in

list form are usually so popular. Simply put, lists are much easier for our brains

to process in a world of information overload. What you may not know though is that this is true for the people making the lists as well.

In a 2011 article by Cynthia R. Green, PhD, titled, Why List Making will Save Your Brain,

Cynthia states, the best way to deal with information

overload is to take control of the information.

Organizational tools such as List Making help us to do exactly that. Many people, including myself, will start

to feel anxious when dealing with too much information at once. This statement by Cynthia seems to show that one good strategy for dealing with this anxiety

is to simply organize all of that information into a list. This explains why to do lists can be an effective way of keeping track

throughout your work day. If you'd like to read that article for yourself I've

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