Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Achieve More, Stress Less: The Reason Why Your To-Do List Makes Your Procrastination Worse. #Shorts

16 Jun 2021 · 1 min

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Brief spoken argument that traditional to-do lists harm personal productivity because they lack constraints and encourage endless tasks. The speaker argues most people never complete their lists and recommends a single productivity metric: whether you did what you intended for the allotted time without distraction.

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One of the things we talk about in the course is why to do lists are one of the worst things you can do for your personal productivity. If you measure your life every day by how many cute little boxes you checked off your to do list, you have already made a cardinal mistake. Why? Because to do lists have no constraints. They have no constraints. I want to do this. I want to do this. I want to do this a mile long. And I've never in all my years of research met anybody who always finishes everything on their to do list. And yet we keep using this stupid technique thinking we are broken. And really it's the technique that's broken. So as opposed to measuring your life based on how many things you got done, stop that. Measure yourself based on one metric alone and that is, Did I do what I said I was going to do for as long as I said I would without distraction.