My wife doesn’t make to-do lists. And yet she gets a ton of stuff every day. She seems to know what to do and she gets it done.
How? You’re asking the wrong guy. I’m the guy who loves to make lists, try out different apps and different systems for managing my lists.
How about you? Are you a list maker? Or are you more like my wife and usually know what to do?
You know what? It doesn’t matter. What matters is that we get our most important things done.
There seems to be a growing trend against the primacy of the to-list. I see articles that say “to-do lists don’t work” or to-do lists cause us to emphasize quantity over quality, or we should use our calendar to schedule our entire day.
I say, do what works for you (and quit spending so much time reading articles about lists).
Let’s say this is to-do list for today:
–Call Max to schedule lunch for next week.
–Review/respond to email.
–Pick up dry cleaning.
–Review lease for Smith.
–Meet with Sally about changes to website.
–Prep for Anderson trial.
–Order new desk lamp.
–Review/edit Blackthorne amendments.
–Finish laundry.
It should be clear that prepping for the upcoming Anderson trial is the most important thing on this list.
It’s the “one thing” that has to be done today. Everything else is number two.
And nobody needs an app to tell them that.
