to-do lists
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Throw A ‘Do Something You’ve Been Avoiding’ Party For 10 Minutes
What’s that one nagging item that keeps rolling over from week to week on your to-do list? Mending the seam on your favourite shirt? Cleaning off your desk? Filing a month’s worth of mail?
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Use A Reverse To-Do List To Record Everything You’ve Done
If you keep a to-do list, how do you track the stuff you get done that isn’t on the list?
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Add A ‘Stretch Goal’ To Your Day
Every weekend, my wife and I hope to get a lot done. We throw all our goals, from “wash hair” to “file taxes,” onto an informal little to-do list on the Reminders app or a scrap of paper. Managing the weekend’s to-do list becomes an errand itself. Push ourselves too hard and we’ll burn out;…
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Divide Your To-Do List Into ‘Easy’ And ‘Hard’ Columns
Here is how many of us make our daily to-do lists: In the AM, fuelled by coffee and morning delusion, we jot down all the tasks we hope to accomplish in the next eight (or, let’s be real, 11 or 12) hours. But these lists, while well-intentioned, are often written haphazardly.