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onto today’s topic: i don’t have a to-do list 📝
well, it just doesn’t necessarily take the form of a list. instead, i block away my tasks in my google calendar.
allow me to elaborate. 😋
knowing i have a lot of tasks to complete with an endless list as a constant reminder is just stressful to me. i like to think of my tasks in terms of hours. when i have a checkbox that even takes 30 minutes to tick off, i will immediately add a 30-minute block somewhere on my calendar before my deadline (unless i can finish it immediately).
this way, i know there’s time allocated to completing this thing at some point in my life and i no longer need to worry about it in the present. shifting my time around like this genuinely eliminates all of my stress associated with my “pending” bucket not being empty. 🪣
for example, if i have an assignment i need to finish, i’m not going to wake up every morning until the deadline and stare at a checkbox with “complete _____” at the very top. i know there will be a 2-3 hours block at some point next week to knock it out, and i won’t worry about it at all.
there’s a fatal flaw to this strategy though: not knowing how long it takes you to get different things done. you need to know yourself extremely well in order for time blocking to be an effective time management method. fortunately, i have a pretty good idea of what activities take me longer than others, and that only comes with experimenting with a lot of strategies paired with varied tasks. quarantine was my time for exactly that — i cycled through different productivity hacks every other week and took note of what stuck.
i block away my tasks in units of time rather than positions on a list, but that’s just what works well for me. 😁
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