My most important to-do list
Isn’t a list of things I’ll actually do / Issue 1,365
Oh, hi friends!
Quick one for you.
My most important to-do list right now…
Isn’t a list of things I’ll actually do.
I noticed my daily list had a bunch of stale ideas, many from months ago.
A bunch of things I was briefly excited about. Things I was never excited about. Things that could be promising but don’t fit my current priorities.
But I kept seeing them again and again.
So I gathered them all and dumped them into a new list titled:
Things I Can Always Do Later, But Not Right Now
Now they have a home. They’re not staring at me every day. There’s no guilt.
If deciding is the key to getting anything done, deciding between fewer things is the way to get the right things done.
This seems to be a theme lately! David Epstein’s Range Widely Substack also mentioned limiting our todo lists! I like your idea of creating a things we might do someday list, but not right now! I think I will adopt that!
What a great idea to let those ideas go and free yourself from the guilt. I also have a list of stale ideas and thoughts whose time has come and gone. I will keep an open door for when the time is right to welcome a new idea. But for now, so long.