Don't pad your to-do list

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Focus your intentions to get more done

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0:00.0	Coming to Hulu this Friday and Saturday night, don't miss our 2023 iHeart Radio Music Festival.
0:05.3	The biggest superstars from all genres of music on one stage.
0:09.2	Food fighters, fallout boy, Kelly Clarkson, Lenny Kravitz, Travis Scott, Tim LaGraw, TLC, and more.
0:15.6	From T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, it's the Can't Miss Music Events of the Year.
0:20.5	Our iHeart Radio Music Festival streamed live only on Hulu and listened on iHeart Radio stations.
0:26.0	Friday night and Saturday night starting at 10 p.m. Eastern 7 p.m. Pacific.
0:33.6	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.
0:39.5	Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:46.5	Today's tip is that you shouldn't pad your to-do list.
0:51.3	The purpose of a to-do list is to choose what needs to get done and to help you do those things.
0:59.0	So don't put tasks on the to-do list that would happen anyway.
1:03.6	This muddies the water and can distract you when it counts.
1:09.7	Today's tip, like another this week, is about having a focused to-do list.
1:15.1	As I discussed earlier this week, you don't want to have a long unwieldy to-do list,
1:20.0	that includes things you may or may not ever get to, and may not even truly intend to do.
1:26.8	A to-do list that's more of a wish list doesn't help you get anything done.
1:32.2	You want to create daily to-do lists that only include items you truly intend to do today.
1:39.7	There's a corollary to this, which is that you shouldn't put things on the list if they are
1:43.7	definitely going to happen today anyway. Trust me, I know this is tempting.
1:50.6	We all like to cross stuff off, and so when we put things on the list that we know are going to
1:56.8	happen, it can feel like we are starting a race 50 meters ahead, but we aren't really.
2:04.4	Recently I heard someone mention the frog and toad book a list.
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