Crush Your Day With This Powerful System for Organising Your Tasks

You are 5 steps away from regaining control

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Having a to-do list is Productivity 101.

It is the sacred cow of all-time management strategies. Everyone has one. Everyone thinks they need one. It is an assumption that is never challenged.

Until now.

So let me enter the fire and say it.

The to-do list causes so many problems.

How not to use a to-do list

Here’s what we usually do:

• Start the day with your list of tasks
• Cross them out as you complete each one
• New work arrives so you add it to your list

If you have done well, your list might be shorter by the end of the day. Sometimes it is longer. But whatever happens, it is never empty.

This is ridiculous. You’d never do this in any other area of life.

This approach creates 3 major problems.

Problem 1: It doesn’t help you decide what to do.

You look at your list of tasks.