How To Love Your To Do List: A Simple Guide To Stress-Free

How To Love Your To Do List: A Simple Guide To Stress-Free Productivity

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Are you constantly unable to complete everything that you need to do? Maybe you feel like your life is a series of reactions to whatever happens to you. Iâ€™ve felt like that and I donâ€™t like it; I donâ€™t think anyone does.

â€œHow To Love Your To Do Listâ€ is for those who are looking for a practical system to increase their performance while decreasing their stress.

This book isnâ€™t one-size-fits-all, and it isnâ€™t about having the perfect day planner. Itâ€™s about how to create a system you can pick apart and customize exactly how you see fit.

This book will help you:

â€¢ Create a to-do system that will allow you to dramatically increase your productivity with minimal stress

â€¢ Understand why people struggle with to-do lists

â€¢ Break down the 3 components of productivity and utilize them to your advantage

â€¢ Create habits for winning with to-do lists

â€¢ Learn what mistakes people make with their lists

As well as learn:

â€¢ How to make a Tickler File in Evernote

â€¢ How to throw away all your receipts with Scannable

â€¢ How to eliminate unnecessary emails forever

â€¢ How to stop getting credit card offers in the mail

Things youâ€™ll get:

â€¢ Templates for organizing your life with Evernote

â€¢ Specific action steps to take at the end of each section

â€¢ Tools I use to plan my week

â€¢ Cheat Sheet book summary

Excerpt from the book

Other Best Practices:

-Understand Willpower Depletion. Each of us has a finite amount of willpower each day. As the day goes on your willpower gets depleted, making it harder to do the next thing on your list.

In his book, â€œThe Power of Habitâ€, Charles Duhigg talks about something called the Hot/Cold Empathy Gap. This explains the struggle people have with New Yearâ€™s Resolutions. People make commitments when theyâ€™re â€œHotâ€ (inspired/motivated) and fail to take into consideration how theyâ€™ll feel when theyâ€™re â€œColdâ€ (tired & overwhelmed). This happens every day with to-do lists as well. Youâ€™ll make a plan to complete all the tasks on your list with every intention of following through to the end. But little by little you wear yourself out and struggle to maintain your resolve.

There are two things you can do when it comes to this:

1. Use If/Then Scenarios

If/Then scenarios are powerful for creating habits (â€œIfâ€ can also be read as â€œWhenâ€). Youâ€™ll have a specific plan for when youâ€™ll do a practice and a fallback plan for if things go south.

â€œWhen I wake up then Iâ€™ll drink 1 cup of water.â€

â€œIf Iâ€™m too tired to go to the gym then Iâ€™ll do 15 minutes of stretching at home.â€

2. Do less

Do you feel overcommitted? Change your commitment. No need to make yourself a martyr. Evaluate the commitment and see if itâ€™s something you genuinely want right now. If itâ€™s a commitment to yourself, say â€œI change my commitment!â€ If itâ€™s a commitment that involves other people, then you can send them a nice email or text explaining reasons.

Commitments we make but donâ€™t act on are the â€œopen-endsâ€ we talked about earlier. Theyâ€™re the cause of the majority of peopleâ€™s stress. You make commitments to others you canâ€™t always follow through on and youâ€™ve likely made commitments to yourself that youâ€™re not even aware of. â€œEat healthierâ€ and â€œclean garageâ€ are a couple of examples.

-Schedule Everything. What gets scheduled gets done. Harvard Business Review calls this â€œliving in your calendar.â€

If you havenâ€™t noticed yet, none of the lists weâ€™ve gone over include a â€œDaily To-Doâ€ list. A bullet point list doesnâ€™t always offer a realistic view of what you can accomplish in a day.

The system weâ€™ve created does a fantastic job of handling â€œopen-en
Country USA
Manufacturer Uyama Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-06-20
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Uyama Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-06-20
Format	Kindle eBook

How To Love Your To Do List: A Simple Guide To Stress-Free Productivity

How To Get More Done Without Killing Yourself

This book will help you:

As well as learn:

Things youâ€™ll get:

Excerpt from the book

Other Best Practices:

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