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I keep a to-do list...Cringe-Busting your TODO list By: Merlin Mann (43 replies) May 23, 2005 - 4:58am |
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I keep a to-do list...
I keep a to-do list that gets rewritten every week. Undone items are brought forward in the order of their age, so they make their way up to the top of the list. (I “star” the most important and vital ones, old and new.) Eventually the shame of something lingering on my list for several weeks gets to me (and I get tired of having to bring it forward each week) and I take care of it, and at least once a week I commit myself to removing the top/oldest item on my to-do list, if not the top/oldest five.