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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is to ask yourself whether you could finish a task before moving it to the next day's to-do list.

Don't take it for granted that unfinished tasks will get migrated from one day to the next.

Pause to consider whether you could just get the tasks done.

Longtime listeners have probably heard me recommend seeing a to-do list as a contract with

yourself. I see putting a task on a to-do list as a promise that you will complete the task that day.

For people who don't take that perspective, though, I would suggest at least being a little

slower to migrate a task from one day's to-do list to the next.

When you review your to-do list at the end of the day, before you migrate lots of

tasks to future days, consider what you could actually just get done. Could you finish? Maybe you needed

to send personalized invitations to 25 people for an event your organization is hosting.

You have sent invitations to 15 of them when your alarm rings to tell you it is time to start

dinner. Could you take your laptop down to the kitchen from your home office and knock out the last

10 invitations while you are waiting for the water to boil, then you don't

have to push this task to the next day.

Or you might have intended to go to the dry cleaner on your way to work after taking your kids

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