Re-think Today’s To Do List

I took a photo of this quote printed inside my copy of #GIRLBOSS a few months ago. I’m the type of person has a hard time just sitting and watching TV and I’m not very good at just resting when I’m sick. I have a cold that kicked my butt last week and I’m still trying to get over it. I’m trying to take better care of myself and enjoy some down time before 30 Days of Lists officially starts this weekend. I’m reading through the virtual pile of newsletters that are filling my inbox from awesome bloggers and entrepreneurs. I’m reading up on how to be a better Dungeon Master. I’m purging a few belongings. I’m making notes of updates I want to make to the Spark ecourse.

I’m obviously terrible at just resting.

Instead of stressing about resting, I’m re-thinking my hustle like approach to my to do list.

For those of you caught between waiting and hustling: put your mile-long to do list aside for the day and think about the three things that you would like to complete by the time you go to bed. Only three things. If you’re able to tackle additional tasks that come your way, that’s fine, but I want you to focus on those three things.

My three things for today:

1. Clear out the unread newsletters from my inbox. There are 111 unread emails in my ‘newsletters’ folder in my inbox and today I’d like to tackle this number. I’m going to plow through these emails pretty quickly because I can easily delete the ones with time-sensitive sounding subject lines or subject lines that just don’t interest me and read the others that look good to me. This really shouldn’t take me more than an hour.
2. Clean out my car. There are jackets, shoes, empty water bottles, and goodness knows what else floating around my car and it’s high time I clean it out. I try to do this once a week and today is as good of a day as any. I hope this doesn’t take more than 15 minutes.
3. Prepare for tomorrow. I have work tomorrow so I would like to spend a few minutes before bed tonight making sure I have something picked out to wear, my bag is in order, I know where my ID badge is, and maybe make a snack for myself. It’s so nice to leave the house on time without feeling rushed or stressed when I take the time to prepare the night before. This should take about 30 minutes.

My three things for today are super boring and I’m okay with that. I need an uneventful evening where I can stream old episodes of Grimm in the background while I make heads-or-tails of a pile of papers sitting on my tiny desk. I need boring and I need easy.

How do you approach your to do list? What are your three things for today?

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