Monthly Archives: August 2008

To Do Lists: why they don’t work


posted in Jane's Blog

Reading over my To Do list, I just felt daunted. Even prioritising the items felt a bit overwhelming, because it seemed like everything was important!

Then I remembered that a To Do list can very easily become a form of poor behaviour – and here I was demonstrating it to myself! So I immediately changed the title of the list to ‘To Be Done’.

This had a pretty big effect right away, because To Be Done doesn’t mean that I have to do it, so the load I was imagining was all down to me was immediately halved.

But then I remembered something I’d done a few years ago when Philip and I were helping my parents renovate their old farmhouse in France. There were so (more...)

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