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Good morning.
This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is that if there is a task on your to-do list that you keep kicking forward, maybe you don't actually have to do it at all.
And if the task can wait, can you eliminate it instead?
Long-time listeners know that I advocate seeing your to-do list as a contract with yourself.
If you put something on your list, you are committing to getting it done on a specific day.
I know not everyone agrees with me on this, and I also know that life happens.
Even if you truly intended to accomplish a task on a given day, there are times when unexpected things come up.
When you have a new demand on your time or when something takes a lot longer than you had any reason to expect.
So you prioritize whatever has to be done that day and roll forward the rest.
There are some tasks that are important but not necessarily urgent, like identifying your career goals for the year ahead, exploring an idea for a new service line for your business or building a relationship with a new colleague.
Those should happen but don't have to happen at a specific time.
So if you plan to spend a morning charting out your long-term career goals but you have a kid home with the flu or an urgent request from your boss or biggest client, it makes sense to reschedule the career planning for another time.
So do choose a new time.
You do want to eventually do these things.
But with some other tasks, if you don't get to them on the day you initially plan to do them, you may be able to scribble them off the list altogether.
Any sort of email newsletter that you don't read the day it arrives, you can probably just delete.
If you plan to do a full clean-out of your closet over the weekend, and you didn't, maybe it really wasn't that important to you.
Maybe you can throw out some ripped items and drop a few others in a donation bin and just call it a day.
Some work tasks that keep getting rescheduled may qualify for the cutting block, too.
Does the binder you're creating for new board members really need to include an organization history and staff org chart?
If you keep moving these items forward to the next days or the next week's priority list, take the hint that those may not be the two most important components.
It is quite possible no one will notice they are missing.
If you're having a hard time with letting go of these tasks, set a reminder to yourself for next year at this time, to reconsider this decision.
If you have managed to live your life in the absence of something, probably the task can be gone for good.
If you don't get to something the day you had planned to, rather than reflexively moving it to the next day or the next day, consider whether you can just skip the task instead.
If it is not essential that you do a task today, is it important that you ever do it?
Sometimes, yes.
But sometimes the answer is actually no.
And that is pretty liberating to realize.
If you eliminate any unnecessary tasks from your to-do list, you can tell me what you cross out and how you feel.
You can reach me at laura at lauravandercam.com.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura at lauravandercam.com.
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