You've been making lists your whole life.
Planning a birthday party? Make a list of people to invite, food to make, and games to play.
Going shopping? Make a list of everything you need to buy.
Going on holidays? Make a list of things to pack, and another list of activities to do while you're away.
That same advice extends to to do lists. It's considered good practice to make and maintain a list of all the tasks you need to do. You may even have a separate list for things to do at work and things to do at home. Of course, as you get busier and take on more responsibilities, your to do lists continue to grow.
Before long, your to do lists have spiralled out of control, and the list is no longer serving its purpose.
As to do lists become more complicated, new problems emerge. How do you prioritise the various items on your list? Is it better to start with the easiest tasks every day? You'll get the short-term satisfaction of striking out four or five items from your list. But when will you start the harder, longer, or more complicated tasks? If you devote your energy to a longer or harder task, when will you tackle the smaller, admin-style tasks?
What if everything you've learned about time management and to do lists is wrong? What if there's a better way of managing your time, keeping track of your tasks, and prioritising your workload? What if you never needed to write a to do list again?
Here's what you can expect from this book:
- Learn how successful people manage their time and keep track of their tasks.
- Find out why the world's most successful people don't keep to do lists.
- See first-hand how successful people track their time using an everyday calendar.
- Discover step-by-step methods to use your calendar to schedule everything.
- Learn how to prioritise every single task on your list.
- Find diagrams, illustrations, worked examples, and calendar templates.
- Make the transition from unmanageable to do lists to a perfectly organised calendar.
None of the ideas in this book are new. That's the point. Let's not bother with a new app or system or routine that claims to reinvent the way you write to do lists. Instead, why don't we look at the way successful people create to do lists that work?
No fluff, no padding, no repetition
Short, simple, to the point
Real-life examples of to do lists that work from CEOs, working parents, students
Suitable for beginners, plenty to offer experienced time management experts
Ready-to-use to do lists and calendar templates
Diagrams, illustrations, and charts to explain every concept
No sales pitch: Everything you need is in this book.
In this book you will learn the do list formula used by the world's most successful people.
Are you ready to follow the example of the world's most successful and productive people? Then let's get started, moving away from to do lists and towards a simpler calendar system.
