Create a better to-do list

Life Kit

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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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 to you. This episode originally published Jan. 5, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.
0:08.0	Hey everybody, it's Mary Elsegara.
0:11.0	I keep it to do list on a notepad on my desk.
0:14.0	And when I looked at it not too long ago, I noticed something.
0:18.0	It's kind of all over the place.
0:20.0	On a given day, it might read,
0:22.0	Make Allergist Appointment by Razors,
0:25.0	Retail Kitchen Floor,
0:27.0	Throw Out Compost,
0:29.0	Microblading, question mark.
0:31.0	Microblading, by the way, is something you do to make your eyebrows look fuller.
0:35.0	It's like a tattoo that lasts a couple years.
0:37.0	I mean, the list is filled with tasks, but some are big and some are small.
0:42.0	Some are urgent and some are definitely not.
0:45.0	Some, I'm not even sure it should be on there.
0:47.0	Like the microblading, which I frantically scribbled down after the lady at my eyebrow threatening salon,
0:52.0	asked who messed up my eyebrows so bad.
0:55.0	Hi, yeah, that was me and a tweezer.
0:58.0	But yeah, I just never felt like I've had a good system for making a to-do list
1:03.0	and deciding what goes on it.
1:05.0	I don't think I'm alone in that.
1:07.0	So on this episode of LifeKit, we are exploring how to make a better to-do list
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