How to Tear Through a To-Do List

When all that needs to be done is too daunting

Sarah Stankorb
Forge
Published in
4 min readAug 31, 2021

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Bullet journals. Post-its. Everyone has their methods.

I’m one of those absurd people who makes weekly, color-coded, master to-do lists, segmented to different aspects of my life: work, home, volunteer. I feel untethered without my lists, and without the tidy columns and bright colors, the gush of small…

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Sarah Stankorb
Forge
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Sarah Stankorb has published with The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, O, and The Atlantic (among others). @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com