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How to shrink your to do list with two simple tips
If you have a To Do List then you like to keep track of the things you need to sort out, but maybe the list is a little too long. Maybe you don’t look at it regularly enough to chip away at the items on it. Well, all of that can change.
Do you ever bump into someone and have a chat only to remember an hour later that you had something you wanted to ask them but forgot to?
Do you ever find yourself with a spare five minutes between appointments and use it to check Facebook, rather than do something more productive?
The solution to these is tagging items in your to-do list with the names of people or places where the to-do can be completed.
If you don’t have a to-do list that you use to keep track of the myriad of tasks that you need to get completed across your life, firstly how can you survive without one? And secondly, you might not want to read on.
If you’re still reading, great.
Tagging to-dos with people
If you are really on top of things, or if you really want to show others how on top of things you are, then your to-do list is not just a place for the tasks that you need to do (e.g. write that presentation, research that subject, buy that present). It should also be a place for things you are wanting…
