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Keeping a to-do list is often one of the first recommendations when it comes to the question of how you can organise your life better. Having a list that makes all the important tasks of the day or week visible at a glance can be a very good idea to bring more order into your often hectic everyday life. This method can help you to complete tasks more efficiently and therefore make more time for the things that are important to you.
But a to-do list can also become a burden. Instead, you should try a not-to-do list. In this article, we explain what it is, what the benefits of a not-to-do list are and how you can create your own.
To do or not to do?
Can be stressful: To-do lists can be more stressful than helpful. Do you recognise this? You put things off, and your to-do list gets longer and longer. By now, you don’t even know where to start, and would rather not do it at all or get caught in an endless loop of procrastination.
It’s better to turn the tables for once, with an emergency to-do list: Write down everything you don’t need to do today. Put off urgent things, for example. Or tidying up the kitchen.
A not-to-do joker comes in handy, doesn’t it? Perhaps you’d like to be inspired by some of our ideas.
Why an emergency to-do list?
Break annoying habits with the not-to-do list. The not-to-do list aims to eliminate annoying time wasters and set priorities. Where are you putting far too much energy into? What takes up most of your time? Where do you prioritise an unimportant task over an important one? A not-to-do list helps you to sharpen your focus on what is important – and what only seems so at first.
You can write a not-to-do list on your own or in parallel with a to-do list. It’s best to make two columns:
- In one, write the things you want to do today.
- In the other hand, enter the tasks that you are not tackling today.
- This division helps you to avoid wasting your energy on unimportant things.
A not-to-do list can also help you to break annoying habits – write them explicitly on the not-to-do page.
How does a not-to-do list help you to plan efficiently?
What is important to me? The not-to-do list can answer this question. As already mentioned, there are two forms of the not-to-do list: Let’s call them the postponed list and the cancelled list.
On the postponed list, you write all the things that are not important or urgent at the moment. It is a good idea to combine this list with a to-do list and write it for one day at a time. You might even make a whole weekly plan, where tasks move from the not-to-do to the to-do column.
The to-do list helps you to distinguish the important from the unimportant and to prioritise. However, it is important that you plan realistically and don’t write too much on either the not-to-do list or the to-do list. This could include things like:
- ‘sort out the wardrobe’
- ‘weed out’
- ‘bake a cake’
- … or whatever else is on your to-do list but isn’t top of the list at the moment.
The to-do list lists what you no longer want to do, for example:
- Checking emails every few minutes
- Always looking at your mobile phone
- Constantly digressing: Starting things but not finishing them, or always jumping back and forth between different tasks.
However, these can also be things that are harmful to yourself because they stress you out or damage your health. In this case, you could write something on your not-to-do list, for example:
- ‘Don’t always say yes to everything’
- ‘Always be available’
- ‘Keep an endless to-do list.’
Or you can keep a not-to-do list with resolutions. You need to find out whether the prohibitive character helps you or whether you prefer to formulate your resolutions positively. Sometimes it’s easier not to do things than to do them. And sometimes the other way round. One person ‘cycles more’ instead of ‘drives less’ and ‘eats more vegetarian food’ instead of ‘eats less meat’. Or you simply write ‘stress’, ‘being in a bad mood’, and ‘being unhappy’ on your not-to-do list.
Either way, a not-to-do list allows you to see everything from a different perspective. Otherwise, we often only see what we have to do. Realising what we don’t have to do helps us to separate the seemingly important from the important.
