Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Burn Your To‑Do List—Focus on Your Top 3 and Win | (Podcast 508)

11 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A short podcast-style YouTube monologue by Cameron Herold reflecting on a personal epiphany: there will always be a to-do list and it's unnecessary to finish it. The speaker recommends daily reprioritization and focusing on the top tasks (explicitly advising to stop trying to finish the whole list and to hit the top two items each day), and notes that lower-priority items may never reach the top and can be dropped.

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I had an epiphany a few years ago that I was never going to get to the end of my to do list. Yeah, every day, every week, I did this to do list. And I'd be, like, frantic. And I just had this, literally this aha moment. There'll never not be a to do list. And that's okay. And that sort of gave me a sense of calm. And what I've done ever since that day is I've woken up in the morning and I've looked at my to do list, and I've reprioritized it for that day and just got through what I can. And sometimes some of those things are on your priority list for months. Sometimes they just disappear off the priority list. And if it's never making its way to the top of the priority list, maybe it's not that important a thing. But that's just my other little thing. And I feed that onto people all the time. You say to me, I can't get through my to do list. Stop trying. You don't need to get to the end of your to do list. You just need to hit the top two things on it every day.