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Have your working day planned and prepare a to-do list: this tip is the one most often mentioned in terms of how to be productive and organise your time well. But writing a to-do list is a more complicated matter than it may seem. Many people make mistakes in this apparently simple activity and thus fall far short of using the potential of a to-do list to its maximum. What are the most common mistakes and why should you avoid them?
This text is based on a post on the Time Management Ninja blog.
The key to the success of a to-do list to have just the one. Some people have multiple to-do lists: one on a sticky note, one on their mobile phone, one in an app on their computer. Of course, this approach does not work.
It can often happen that your working day does not go exactly as you planned. Therefore, it is necessary to determine in advance which tasks are a priority and always work on these first.
A good to-do list must include breaks. If you do not plan time for your body and mind to recover, your to-do list will not be realistic.
When writing a to-do list, people tend to make it very ambitious. However, this results in the plan being unrealistic or challenging; the result is you will not enjoy it and sooner or later start to drift away from it or abandon it completely.
If your to-do list suffers from the above-mentioned problems, it is quite likely that you will stop following it. But then all your planning has been pointless. Prepare to-do lists that will help you, not ones that will stress you out and that you would rather not follow.
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