7 Life-Changing, Non-Boring Spins on the To-Do List

The lists you aren’t making but should be

Laura Vanderkam
Forge
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5 min readJan 28, 2021

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We make all kinds of lists: To-do lists. Grocery lists. Bucket lists. Anti-bucket lists. Making lists helps us corral information and get our heads around big tasks. Some research has shown that it can keep us from ruminating about what we haven’t done.

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Laura Vanderkam
Forge
Writer for

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management books including Off the Clock and 168 Hours. She blogs at LauraVanderkam.com.