How Keeping a To-Do List Can Make Your Life Easier

You can not even imagine how much unnecessary information is stored in your head. Sometimes you find yourself remembering the name of your late neighbor's first dog, but forgot what planned for next weekend.

People should organize not only a cozy living or working space, but also a mental space. Keeping a to-do list will free your brain from unnecessary information, and you will be able to work more productively, study and learn something new.

• Maintain to-do lists by importance and urgency
• How to make a to-do list for every day
• Who benefits from keeping a daily to-do list
• How to See Changes in Life with Lists

Maintain to-do lists by importance and urgency

There are many ways to effectively maintain lists. You can choose a method that will help you sort things by importance. To do this, make three lists:

• Write down the things you must do. For example, sew or buy an outfit for a child's matinee. This event has a specific date, so the task cannot be postponed "until" later.

• mark things that are important to get done, but can be put off. If you're going to do things later, then be clear about the deadlines. Let's say it's a holiday, and you wanted to wash the curtains. On the eve of the holiday, you will have worries about food, guests, and gifts. So note that you need to wash the curtains a few days before the event.

• In list the things you want to do, but can get started.For example, you have long been planning to transplant a flower into a prettier pot. The plant does not require an immediate increase in "living space", but you are more pleasant if it is in a green pot, and not a red one. Record such cases in a separate list.

Now you have three lists. Do things from evenly, without throwing any  In time, you will see that you will redo all the things that put off indefinitely.

How to make a to-do list for every day

There are two rules that help you plan your daily activities. The first way — Choose one very important thing, three things that are not too big, and five small things. In the first half of the day, it is better to do the most important and urgent things, because in the morning you are still full of energy and productivity is higher.

The second way — write down three very urgent tasks and two less important things. Minor household chores can be postponed until the next day. We recommend alternating between these two options for maintaining lists, because there may not always be a mountain of important or small things.

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If you write to to-do lists for every day, then we advise to turn it into schedules. This way you'll have a clear idea of ​​how your day will go. Of course, circumstances sometimes force us to change our plans, don don experience this.

Who benefits from keeping a daily to-do list

Writing down tasks and commitments will help in work and in life. If you manage a large department and have to control everyone, then list — an integral part of your work. It is difficult to remember all the employees and their tasks.

In a large family, something is often forgotten. Schedules and lists help keep everyone in the family organized: it's clear who does the dishes, who's in charge of dinner, and who gets to go to the market.

And of course, if you're unable to properly organize your time, then the list will help you a lot. For those who are new to this business, it will be useful to allow more time for the completion of one thing. At first, it will be difficult to live by the list, by the schedule that the list sets. But in a month you will see how much more productive you have become: you will stop forgetting about business, you will be able to include more tasks in your life, you will have room in head for new ideas.

How to See Changes in Life with Lists

It is very important not only to make lists, but and to correct them from time to time. You don't need to add to your lists for the next day with unfinished business. Otherwise, you will definitely not be in time, you will see the list on the whole sheet and frustrated. Write down the things that were not done for the day separately and include them in your planner evenly. Keep in a notebook, a sheet of paper or a smartphone — matter of your convenience. The main thing is that you feel comfortable.

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