![]() The quickest route to a task you'll actively avoid working on: Make it a vague monstrosity. You'd tell your assistant to do something only if you absolutely, positively want it done, so only concrete actions you're committed to completing should live on your to-do list. Instead of letting tasks you're not quite committed to loiter on your to-do list until you're sick of looking at them (and sick of the reminder that you're not quite there yet), move them off to a separate list, a holding area for Someday/Maybe items. Maybe upgrading the website is low priority because your business is shifting gears in a major way, and any site overhaul will look very different - or maybe won't be needed - in six months. Maybe learning a new language - while it's an eventual goal - just doesn't fit into your life right now. Sometimes you think of tasks you're just not ready to do yet. Only Put Items on the List That You're Definitely Doing When it's time to add something to your to-do list, think it through using the following guidelines. Taking the thinking out of the acting is one of the best ways to make your to-do list a cinch to finish off. When you're wearing your Boss hat, it's up to you to write down the instructions in such a way that your Assistant self can just do them without having to think - or stress. Your to-do list is a collection of those orders, which your Assistant personality will later pick up and do. Now you're in thinking/Boss mode - the guy/gal who gives the orders. When a project or task comes up, the steps you need to take start to form in your mind. You Are the Boss of YouĪt any point during the workday, you are in one of two modes: thinking mode (that's you with the Boss hat on) and action mode (that's you with the Personal Assistant hat on). ![]() ![]() Read on for a closer look at how to write a to-do list that makes getting your stuff done dead-simple. If not, you'll get undesirable results, such as fear, procrastination, and self-loathing. Like a good computer program, if the instructions are clear, specific, and easily carried out, you're golden. Think of your to-do list as an instruction set your Boss self gives your Assistant self.
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