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Paula Rizzo shares a productivity tip: write a detailed to-do list the night before to start your day calm instead of chaotic. Planning ahead prevents morning overwhelm and keeps you on track when interruptions hit.
Paula Rizzo shares a productivity tip: write a detailed to-do list the night before to start your day calm instead of chaotic. Planning ahead prevents morning overwhelm and keeps you on track when interruptions hit.
Hi, I'm Paula Rizzo from ListProducer.com, and I have a secret to share about how to start your day fresh, not frantic. How many times do you get to your desk, the phone is ringing, the emails are going, people are walking into your office, you get called off for a meeting, and you feel like your day has just gotten completely away from you and you can't control it at that point? Well, I have a special trick for you, and it is in the form of a list, of course. Um, and it's something that I do and have done as a television producer for years and years and years, and it's really helped me to get more done throughout the day. And the way I do it is every night before I leave work, every night no matter what, I sit down and I run through the following day in my head. Everything that needs to happen, every phone call I need to make, every shoot I need to go on, every email I need to send back. And I'm very specific when I write out this list. And it doesn't just say, you know, write back emails. It says write back to Jim about the shoot for Thursday. It's very, very specific. And I find that if you do that, the next day when you come in, even if other things happen and you do get distracted, you always have that list to refer back to. And so when you— in the morning, you're not frantic and crazy and overwhelmed. You already have a roadmap for how your day is going to go. You can cross things off, you can move them to the next day if you need to, but at least you have a plan.
