Learn to love your to-do list.

Seriously.
Make a conscious effort to love your to do lists and the wonderful freeing sensation you get when you have every task you need to do written down in one place. You know, if it is written down, you don’t have to take up valuable thinking space trying to remember them!

Fun fact: Our brains are designed to fixate on all the things you need to do and forget about the things you have already completed. It is a wonderful design of our called the The Zeigarnik effect. This is a psychological phenomenon describing a tendency to remember interrupted or incomplete tasks or events more easily than tasks that have been completed. A downside of this wonderful effect is that once you take that first step, no matter how small, once you have started (but not finished) a task, you will keep thinking about it until you complete it.

You can bypass this though! the very act of writing your to-do list can help. Because you have completed writing out your list of tasks – your brain calms down . ” just making the plan will help still that inner unhelpful voice telling you that “you never finish anything!” so that you can get yourself moving again.”

The key here is to learn to love making that list… but not get complacent. Making this list takes the pressure off your brain trying to remember everything, YOU need to actually complete them at a later date.. and that is the next step!