Overwhelmed by Your To-Do List? Here's Your Solution! ✍️
2024-05-17 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:57 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis
Against an overwhelming to-do list Ali sorts tasks into big and small stuff and clears the small admin in a 45-minute "admin party" at a coffee shop, played as a game.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — Introduction: doctor turned entrepreneur, author of Feel Good Productivity
00:00:15 — Big stuff and small stuff; the admin party
- ★★★ When a to-do list feels overwhelming, Ali suggests writing down everything that is overwhelming you and sorting it into big stuff (needing at least a solid half-hour session) and small stuff (little bits of admin that pile up). — 00:00:15
- ★★ Ali finds that when his to-do list overwhelms him, it is usually the small bits of admin that become annoying and overwhelming. — 00:00:29
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★★★ Ali puts all the small tasks into one list and blocks 45 minutes in his calendar for an "admin party": laptop, a coffee shop, music in headphones, and a game of clearing as much small admin as possible in those 45 minutes. — 00:00:31
“I call it an admin party”
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★★ Ali says every admin party he has held has greatly reduced the overwhelm of his to-do list and his life. — 00:00:48
Threads in this video
- restate · Should you run your work from a to-do list? — When a to-do list feels overwhelming, Ali suggests writing down everything that is overwhelming you and sorting it into big stuff (needing at least a solid half-hour session) and small stuff (little bits of admin that pile up). (00:00:15)
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