425. How to write the most effective to do list EVER so you can feel great after (and other focus tips)
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
I’m sharing how I tackle that overwhelming feeling of “I have so much to do but nothing’s getting done.” I walk you through how I create my to-do lists in a way that actually works. With a breakdown of soft vs. hard actions, how to tell what needs deep focus vs quick wins and how I use time-blocking to stay on track without burning out.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, beautiful people and welcome to the podcast episode of today. |
| 0:19.3 | So this podcast episode is really me trying to light the fire under |
| 0:24.6 | your anus. We are really getting into the best to-do list ever, okay? Because I've got a problem |
| 0:32.7 | with to-do lists. I have a love-hate relationship with to-do lists, primarily love, because I do them all the |
| 0:38.3 | time, but hate in the sense that if not done properly, there can sometimes be more cause for |
| 0:44.1 | like feeling like you haven't done enough or anxiety or just getting annoyed at yourself |
| 0:48.9 | instead of what it is meant to be. And that is something that's actually going to propel you |
| 0:53.9 | forward and feel like |
| 0:54.8 | you're being more productive and you're getting your fucking shit together in your life. Okay. |
| 0:58.7 | So this episode is about how to write the most effective to-do list. And I'm also going to |
| 1:04.6 | throw in some other focus tips in there as well. So I hope that while listening to this, you have a pen and paper, or you're typing |
| 1:14.1 | it out and you are really jotting down what it is that I have to say because it is, I think it's |
| 1:22.4 | going to fucking help you. Okay. Now, little life update. What is my life update? Oh, guys, I made Baclavar yesterday. Now, for those of you |
| 1:33.6 | playing along at home that follow my cousin, Jocelyn and I on all our weird adventures. |
| 1:40.2 | Yes, Jocel and I are doing the puzzle championships. We are entering that together. We are also, |
| 1:46.5 | we've been doing this for like about a year and a half now. We get together every Tuesday, |
| 1:50.3 | within reason, whenever possible. And we alternate whose house we go to and we cook a new meal |
| 1:56.9 | that we've never cooked. Or if we have cooked a meal and it was really shit we have to |
| 2:01.8 | re-attempt it and nail it okay we get our partners so tyrone and frankie they judge it they give us a |
| 2:08.6 | score out of 10 and that's kind of how we go along so last night we did like a butter lemony |
| 2:15.9 | like lebanese chicken It was very good. Although |
| 2:21.1 | Tyrone gave it like a fucking six and a half out of ten because he said the skin wasn't |
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