To Do List Meditation

And so one day I decided to meditate for 15, 20 minutes and have a pen and paper in my hand. And so I just sit there quietly, and everything that comes into my head, I just put on a piece of paper and I just write it down. I don't open my eyes. I just keep my eyes closed. And so it looks like scribble whenever I get done, but I just put everything that's in my brain onto there. So a lot of times I'm very scatterbrained, as most people are. And that's when I'll do my to do list meditation, where I'll go, okay, I need to. There's a lot of stuff going in my brain. I need to take all of it, and I need to put it on a piece of paper. When I get done with it, it's like extreme clarity. There's nothing else running in my brain because everything that my brain was worrying about is on that piece of paper. So it doesn't need to worry about it anymore. And then I look at it and I say, okay, what's priority number one? Like, what's the most important thing that has to be done today? Okay, it's this. And so I go, okay, this is number one. This is number two. This is number three. And if I get just number one done for the day, it's a successful day. And the reason why is because I used to take to do lists. I think a lot of people do this. I would take my to do list and try to knock out as many things as possible, which means I'm going to get the easiest things done. But then at the end of the day, you feel like you got nothing done. Even though you checked off 30 things off your to do list was because you didn't take the most important things off of the list.