Welcome to the Hustles, Samely podcast, a show inviting you to live a peacefully productive

life.

I'm your host, Jess Massey, a peaceful productivity coach and planner creator.

My mission is to share mindset shifts and peaceful productivity tips that help people with

really full lives go from running on fumes to living with intention

in every season. You're in the right place if you want to design a life that reflects your

actual priorities so you can stop the constant hustle and pursue your goals while prioritizing

your well-being. Now take a deep breath and let's learn how to hustle sanely.

Hey, hi, hello, Hustle Saly Squad, and welcome back to the show.

I am so glad that you're here and I hope that you're taking care of yourself.

If you constantly feel like your to-do list is never ending. Like you are working hard all day,

but still ending the day wondering what the heck you even accomplished. This episode is for you.

And I know that's quite a few of you because I get messages from people every single day

asking about this very thing. I want you to know, first of all, you're not broken. You're not lazy. You're not doing life or productivity wrong. You might just be writing your to do list in a way that sets you up to lose from the start. And don't worry, I am not here to tell you to throw away your to do list and just, quote, go with the flow. Like if you know me at all, you know I am type A at my core and I love a good to do

list.

But I'm going to teach you how to run your to do list instead of letting it run you.

Okay.

So let's start off by talking about the real reason you're not finishing your to do list.

Most of us are writing to do lists that are basically guilt traps.

We treat our to dodo lists like wishless

instead of strategic plans. We jot every random thing that we might want to do down without

any clue about how long these things take, whether they even need to be done right now or

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