Your To-Do List Is Making You Procrastinate: Here’s How to Fix It

Make one simple change to your to-do list to unlock more productivity.

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“The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.”

– Alexander Graham Bell

Having a to-do list doesn’t gaurantee your tasks will get done.

If that were true, procrastination wouldn’t exist. Everyone would just write to-do lists and be super productive. But in real life, important tasks gather dust on our to-do lists while we focus on the wrong things.

Fortunately, you can break the cycle of procrastination if you understand how to use to-do lists correctly.

The Mistake You’re Making with To-Do Lists

I’ll bet the tasks you procrastinate on are the big scary ones.

Stuff like “develop the business strategy” or “create an employee incentive programme”. You know these are important, but the weeks fly past and you don’t make any progress. The tasks you tick off your to-do list are the wrong ones — the easy ones.

Eventually, the deadline arrives, and you go into panic mode. With frantic effort, you…