Why you should stop acting lists
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
What you need to do today? What are your plans? If you regularly read Layfhaker, then surely you have a list that you lead in a notebook or smartphone apps. In this article, we will play against these lists.
It seems that every 24 hours, there is a new application or service to do business list. Among them there are even crazy as EpicWin. But do they help you? Or whatever the new application you use, you still can not manage to keep the damn to-do-list? The problem is not you, but in most of these cases the lists.
It is a harmless tool designed to make your life easier, in fact, kill you, and here's why:
- List gives you the illusion of progress.
- List gives you the illusion of accomplishment.
- Do List makes you feel guilty about the fact that you have not completed the planned tasks.
- Do List makes you feel guilty about what you're going to be late with the implementation of some tasks.
- Do List makes you feel guilty about what you do not do things that do not want to do under any circumstances.
- Due to the to-do list you wrongly set priorities.
- Lists - it's a waste of time. Think of how many cases you could do instead of endlessly shuffle tasks to-do-lists.
- Lists of cases kill the fun of activities, because you feel that you have to do is inscribed in their business, not just want to do.
- do list will not make you more organized.
- Lists deprive you of spontaneity, and the possibility to take up the case that you did not originally planned. Let's face it: is it possible to plan EVERYTHING?
You do not need lists for really significant cases in your life, you have them still do. And if not, then you have a serious problem and should solve them before they pick up a fresh application for planning.
As for the unimportant things, they will endlessly build up and wander from one list to another, slipping into a huge ball, which will put pressure on you every day. This sprawling list will hang over you like a guillotine, with each passing day it becomes harder and sharper.
We accumulate unfinished business, as trash in the closet: it seems that we do not have enough storage space, but in fact we have accumulated too many things that need to throw away! We say: ah, if a day had 25 hours! 24 hours not enough for all my things. Not enough is not the time, and ability to set priorities, the ability to exclude those extra tasks, to say "no" to people and their own unnecessary ideas expunged underperforming projects and the extra business. Here's what might help:
Enough to make to-do lists! Throw away all the lists now! Seriously. It's scary, but the right choice is often frightening.
Do you have an amazing tool - your brain. If waking up in the morning, you can not think and remember using it, what are the three important things you need to do today is time to correct this deficiency. And it does not mean that you need to install another application or read an article about productivity. We need to understand what is important to you, what motivates you, why your business is not as interested in you so that you remember them and do them.
Unlike all tools, your brain is always with you and will be with you until the end of life. Learn to trust him. And if you can not, then train it until you can fully rely on it.