Never Do Anything Again Without a List

Posted by Amir Lehrer on July 15, 2008

I have been thinking a lot lately about wasting time and how to stop doing it. I think that it might be me trying to make up for all the time I wasted in my life up until now. Thinking back to high school and college, I can’t believe how much time I wasted. I watched 9 whole seasons in a row of “Friends” in less than 2 weeks. Some people call that dedication but looking back, it was a huge waste of time.

Recently I have read a few books and blogs about productivity and wasting time which has made me extremely conscious of all the time I waste each day. To make myself even more conscious, I added a time trackers to my Firefox browser to record how much time I waste online.

One thing that I noticed that really helps become more productive is making lists of specific tasks that need to get done and then doing them one at a time. Writing the list organizes you instead of having a million things run around in your head. When you look at the list, you know exactly what to do, when to do it and about how long it will take you to do. Without the list, you can get overwhelmed by little tasks that will only take a few minutes each because when things are floating around in your head, you can’t see them clearly. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »

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