Daily Tasks (Mini Goals)

In my previous post I wrote about goal setting. I explained how you need to write your goals down in order to solidify and act on them. Today is similar except we are talking about task lists and the benefit of writing them down. A task list is just a list of things you want to accomplish for the day. You check them off as you go along and by the end of the day you will have accomplished all that you wanted to do. Sounds like another thing you don’t really need to do, but I tell you it works. It makes you feel good at the end of the day when you have finished all the items. You don’t feel like you wasted the day. It kept you on top of yourself all day so that you were not distracted. It’s a general all round good feeling to have done it. Now here is the secret, and it’s not my secret. You write your tasks for the day down the night before. This is so that you can go to bed not thinking of all the things you need to do the next day and try to keep them organized in your head when you should be sleeping. You also won’t wake up trying to organize your day in the morning opposed to doing more important things that should be done in the morning (that’s for another post). I’ve started writing down my tasks for the day and find that I didn’t write enough tasks! Because I wanted to get them checked off as quickly as possible I just went and got them all done. This gives me more time to focus on my longer term goals. Ever since I’ve started doing this I’ve felt great! I have less clutter in my mind, I don’t feel overwhelmed, I have a clearly defined day ahead of me. It has been said that the most successful people in life have a plan and follow through with it. They make these task lists every day. They put time in there to work on their goals and add them to the list. The overall theme here is to set goals and accomplish them. You should always be working on your long term goals. By managing your time with these task lists you are assuring yourself the time to fit in those goals.