This might sound like a bad idea, but it’s been great for me recently.
It sounds bad, like I’m putting things off. But it’s not like that.
It’s about planning ahead.
Instead of starting with a blank day, make your to do list the day before.
I still add to my To Do list during the day if and when I find more I want to do.
But I love waking up with concrete items already in place for the day.
Plus, it does allow me to move items from today to the next day.
As I’m doing today’s To Do list, I might find that I’m not going to get some items done.
If they’re meaningful, I can slide them over to the next day instead of leaving them on an unfinished list or grinding to finish them today.
That means at the end of today, today’s list is completely checked off whether I finished everything or not. Each item is either checked off, moved to the next day, or deleted because the time passed for it to matter.
This isn’t some revolutionary new idea.
What’s new and—ahem—revolutionary is that I’m actually using it consistently.
