![]() ![]() How much clearer, simpler, and more manageable the second daily to-do list looked? Now let's try a version of that to-do list with a verb for each item: ![]() It’s how actionable your tasks are, and that happens through using verbs in each and every task on your task list. So the secret to an effective to-do list isn’t about what app you use, or what morning or evening routine you write it during. If you’ll please flash back to elementary school with me for a quick sec, you’ll recall that verbs describe actions…things that you DO. So, what makes a good to-do list? How to Write an Effective To-Do List The estimate I like to give people is that every minute you spend planning can save 5-10 minutes on the doing. So it’s totally worth taking the extra minute or two (seriously, it’s not much time) to create a more effective to-do list. Your to-do list is your instruction manual for the day.Īnd we all know what it’s like to put together furniture with a confusing manual (side-eying the shoddily put together IKEA bookshelf next to me □). To keep it brief and simple.īecause the less time you spend planning, the more time you can spend doing, right? WRONG. I understand the desire to spend as little time as possible writing your to-do list. You can read all the lifehack and productivity articles in the world about the "best tool" for your to-do list, but no productivity app will fix not knowing how to write an effective to-do list in the first place. ![]()
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