On Knowing What NOT To Do

If your?to-do?list is anything like mine, it's like a weed that never dies. It just grows and grows and grows until it consumes your every thought to the point where you get nothing done at all.

I truly have a love-hate relationship with my to-do lists.

On the one hand, they keep my thoughts nicely organized. But on the other hand, they overwhelm me with the endless amount of things that never seem to get done.

I've realized that the problem isn't in the to-do list itself, but rather in the criteria that determine what makes the cut and what doesn't.

A helpful way to evaluate what makes the cut is to create an inverse list of things not to do - better thought of as a 'to-don't' list.

Knowing what goes on your?to-don't?list will help make your?to-do?list more meaningful and productive. In other words, the best way to make progress on your to-do list is to make a to-don't list.

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