How to write a to-do list
There's no craft to it, and that's the good news. One line, your own words, a day attached, written down wherever you happen to be standing.
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There's no craft to it, and that's the good news. One line, your own words, a day attached, written down wherever you happen to be standing.
By the second week, everything on the list is marked high. The flags didn't fail you. They never did what it felt like they were doing.
The fresh template works for about four days. Then Thursday goes sideways, the rows go blank, and the pretty page starts judging you.
Eighteen items on a Monday morning is optimism with bullet points. By Wednesday you have stopped believing the list, and that is how people quit.
The weekly review is the first ritual everybody quits, because somewhere along the way it turned into an hour of tidying up.
A calendar holds promises to be somewhere. A list holds promises to do something. Cram the second into the first and you spend the morning dragging blocks around.