How to Go About Refreshing Your To Do List

Wondering how to update your to do list quickly and easily?

Are you looking for quick tips to help you put things in order?

You may not have thought about it before, but to-dos are perpetual machines.

The more there is to do, the more you add to a list of to-dos, and vice versa.

If you are feeling a bit pressured or overwhelmed by your to-do list, it might be time to refresh it.

In this post, you’ll find several tips to help you trim down your to-do list for the better.

Follow these simple tips and breath new life into your list so you can get things done.

Review your current to-dos.

By nature, to-do lists are snapshots of time within your life.

The list that you create today will be different from the one you create six months in the future.

That being said, are the to-dos that are currently on your list relevant to the life that you are living right now?

What really, really needs to be done right here, right now?

Are there any to-dos that can be removed?

After reviewing your to-dos, see if there’s any tasks that have been completed and can be removed off of the list.

You might be pleasantly surprised at what you find!

Additionally, check to see if there’s any tasks that can be eliminated completely.

Perhaps you changed your mind about a task, project, or event.

Maybe your circumstances changed…hey, it happens.

Are there to-dos that can be put on hiatus?

Consider moving non-essential or non-time sensitive tasks to a separate future to-do list.

You can also think of this as a “just not now list.”

Make a note in your calendar a few months in the future to review your list.

You might get the itch over the course of a few weeks or months to complete that task.

If that’s the case, you’ll know without a doubt that the to-do should go back on your list of immediate things to accomplish.

Are there any to-dos that need to be refreshed?

Is one massive to-do hanging over your head like a giant black cloud?

Consider breaking out the to-do into smaller parts to help you get started.

Let’s say you want to paint a spare room.

Browse new paint colors online or take a trip to the hardware store to pick up a few sample colors.

Take small steps and you’ll see physical results right away.

This may give you that jump-start that you need to get a to-do going in the right direction.

How about you? Which of your to-dos are you going to remove? Join the conversation and leave a comment below!

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About the Author

Rashelle

Rashelle Isip is a New York City-based productivity consultant who helps successful entrepreneurs and business owners manage their time and energy so they can reduce stress, work less, and make more money in their businesses. She has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, NBC News, The Washington Post, NPR, and The Atlantic. Get her free guide, 5 Unexpected Things You Need to Organize a Work Notebook, by clicking here.

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