How to make a better to-do list
Life Kit
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is NPR's Life Kit. I'm Mary Elcigara. |
| 0:04.0 | I keep it to do list on a notepad on my desk. |
| 0:08.0 | And when I looked at it recently, I noticed something. |
| 0:11.0 | It's kind of all over the place. |
| 0:12.0 | On a given day, it might read, |
| 0:14.0 | Make Allergist appointment. |
| 0:16.0 | Buy razors. |
| 0:18.0 | Retail kitchen floor. |
| 0:20.0 | Throw out compost. |
| 0:21.0 | Microblating, question mark. |
| 0:23.0 | Microblating, by the way, |
| 0:25.0 | is something you do to make your eyebrows look fuller. |
| 0:27.0 | It's like a tattoo that lasts a couple years. |
| 0:29.0 | I mean, the list is filled with tasks, |
| 0:32.0 | but some are big and some are small, |
| 0:34.0 | some are urgent, and some are definitely not. |
| 0:37.0 | Some, I'm not even sure I should be on there, |
| 0:39.0 | like the microblating, which I frantically scribbled down |
| 0:43.0 | after the lady at my eyebrow threading salon |
| 0:45.0 | asked who messed up my eyebrows so bad. |
| 0:48.0 | Hi, that was me, and a tweezer. |
| 0:51.0 | But yeah, I've just never felt like I had a good system |
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