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🗓️ 14 September 2022
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Your to-do list should be a contract with yourself
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0:39.5 | Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. |
0:46.2 | Today's tip is that to do means today. When you put something on today's to-do list, |
0:54.7 | this should mean you truly intend to do it today. |
0:59.2 | Being disciplined about this rule is one of the best ways to get big things done. |
1:06.8 | Lots of people make to-do lists, but we don't all make such lists for the right reasons, |
1:12.9 | or allow them to be as useful as they can be. As Christina Shenvie put it on her blog, |
1:19.6 | time for your life. The goal of a to-do list is not to catalog all the things you would like to do |
1:25.7 | with your life, but to facilitate doing them. The only way to do that is to keep your to-do list, |
1:33.5 | short, and focused. For today's to-do list, you should include only the tasks you intend to do |
1:42.0 | and have the capacity to do. Then you should do them. Today, they reliably cross over |
1:49.9 | to being done. Unfortunately, I have seen over the years that many people do not approach to do lists |
1:57.2 | this way. They will list scores of things that they will never actually get to. |
2:03.0 | They simply would like to have them done at some point. Clean out the attic, |
2:08.5 | start a book club, revamp my fall wardrobe, update my resume. I think some people even feel a |
2:16.0 | sort of pride in having a long to-do list. Maybe they think it means they are full of hopes and ideas? |
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