First and foremost: write your to do list in terms of completed outcomes.
For example, you currently have this task:
“Tell Alliance and Leicester about your address change”
Actually, the task you want to complete is:
“Have Alliance and Leicester redirect Nan’s statements to your house”
Telling Alliance and Leicester you’ve moved is just one of the tasks necessary for a successful completion of what it is you really want to do (have the mail redirected).
Maybe your lists should look like this:
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(1) Have Alliance and Leicester redirect Nan’s statements to your house
* Tell Alliance and Leicester about your address change
* Write fax request and ask Pramila to print it
* Have Nan sign it
* Post it
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I like this because it gives you a clear view of what’s involved in completing the task – which helps you plan your day because it tells you what is actually possible in the time available to you.
I also like it because it gives my blog posts lots of strike-throughs – a sign of productivity, progress and achievement..!
And I think the To Do list should be a rolling one, beginning afresh every Monday. Strike out done tasks as the week progresses and add new tasks as you go along. The following Monday the new list is the old list minus the completed (struck out) tasks.
