7 tiny hacks that can improve your to-do list

Life Kit

NPR

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Is your to-do list helping you reach your goals? Or is it holding you back? Productivity experts explain how to level up your list so it prioritizes what matters. This episode originally published January 4, 2023.

Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NPR Privacy Policy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Oh, ho.
0:00.6	Oh, Santa here.
0:02.4	Coming to you from the North Pole,
0:03.9	where the elves in our podcast division of just completed work
0:06.6	on this season's best gift for public radio lovers.
0:09.8	NPR Plus.
0:11.2	Give the gift of sponsored free listening and even bonus episodes from your favorite NPR
0:15.7	podcasts, all while supporting public media.
0:19.0	Learn more at plus.npr.org. You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.
0:32.2	Hey everybody. It's Mariel Segarra. I keep to-do list on a notepad on my desk.
0:39.1	And when I looked at it, not too long ago, I noticed something.
0:42.9	It's kind of all over the place.
0:44.6	On a given day, it might read, make allergist appointment.
0:48.8	Buy razors.
0:50.1	Retile kitchen floor.
0:51.8	Throw out compost.
0:53.6	Microblading, question mark.
0:55.9	Microblading, by the way, is something you do to make your eyebrows look fuller.
0:59.4	It's like a tattoo that lasts a couple years.
1:02.3	I mean, the list is filled with tasks, but some are big and some are small.
1:07.1	Some are urgent and some are definitely not.
1:10.1	Some I'm not even sure I should be on there, like the microblading, which I frantically
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.