Simple Thoughts on Creating To-Do List: Effectively Fun and Therapeutic!

This fast-paced world wants a lot of work to handle while tracking of so many deadlines and appointment in every 24 hours. To avoid conflicting schedules and any delays, people no longer rely on their limited memory to get things done manageably. They put it all onto a list called to-do list.

To-do list = anything and everything that’s needed to do during the whole day, week, or even month. I guess we already have enough familiarity with to-do list, since it has been recommended by a lot of self-development content writers / bloggers out there. But, creating list of things to do is still busy sounding. It still brings the sense of busy ones that have no rest. Lol

Some people think that listing would end in smoke if they don’t have things to keep up with. here the questions come. How effective is creating to-do list when we don’t have to keep up with a lot of things?

When there is a new writing to publish, there is a group of answers coming. I’d say those people better create lists regardless of if they have a lot to follow or not. Creating list trains human brain to be active in prioritizing and sorting work. Once they get busy in the near future, they can choose what to do first from their listing habit.

Not knowing what to prioritize when being busy is so real, as real as messing up with individual goals in the end. For those busy workers, to-do list helps to complete big projects by breaking them into smaller continuous tasks to manage. Meanwhile, for those who don’t keep up with big things and pressures, to-do list encourages them to increase productivity (at list during the day when the list is being written). Here’s why it affects productivity.

To-Do List and Productivity Increasement

At first, you’ll feel a little struggle to form a bunch and short clear sentences on your list. But the more you write, the better it gets. After that, you’ll have a lot of fun in writing, crossing and checking things on your list.

Productivity starts from intentions to adding more items on your daily / weekly / monthly to-do list. It will feel like you have a very small amount of activities on it, and it just looks so boring. You want to write more, check more and cross off more things but don’t know what else can get those check or cross marks. What you’ll do is all on the list.

Not sure of what’s right or wrong, you hold yourself back. You try to focus more on your current, instead of adding some new activities. You want to test things out, you want to know what else to feel besides that strong intention to add more activities. Your game finishes with a reward called sense of accomplishment.

That’s the finish for your current level, not the end of the game. You take the reward and celebrate your victory. While celebrating, you realize a small change on how your brain works.

Before you finished the very first level, alarm used to be set to remind you what to do. You often check your list because you’ve always forgotten a lot. But, after playing your game constantly, you rarely look at your list to find what to do next.

Your brain now has a cool program that helps you remember. So, as a start on your next level, you let your creativity to play along. Some new activities are added with no worries.

You plan on watching random videos. 5 minutes later, you replace the “random” word with “funny”. And then, you add standing in front of the mirror and some other unimportant activities on your list. You’ll be so happy with your to-do list that looks bigger, but your joy of it is just temporary.

Some days later, you change all those new activities with something more useful. You add reading more books, then. You won’t know why your mind starts creating a separate list for your to-read list / reading list. You’ll find it weird, since you never wanted to write a lot of list before knowing about the to-do list thing.

In some days, you’ll read all the listed books / watch the listed movies / listen to the listed podcast etc. In some other days, you’ll get discouraged and choose to distract yourself. And in some other other days, you’ll spend time thinking what to do next after reading / watching/ listening. You want to discuss things out, but have no friends to discuss with.

You end up joining a book club or whatever club you’re into. Your to-do list gets way bigger as you meet more, hear more and discuss more. Besides your productivity, your motivation also gets increased. You’ll find it easy to be active and get creative, even if you haven’t got any financial stability.

You’ll find a therapeutic effect, only from creating to do list. You’ll find it fulfilling, making you complete, and giving you a lot of personal achievement that make you proud. It turns up you’re having personal to-do list and group to-do list. From there, you know that prioritizing your things doesn’t have to wait until you get so much pressure from the professional world.

Closing Statement

Creating to-do list can be time-consuming at the very first trials, can be even boring to place as a part of routine. Nonetheless, we know that it’s beneficial for everyone and it can also be fun. Once you are familiar with listing, your tasks and projects are easier to be done on time. It won’t even stress you out when separating the personal, professional and organizational to-do list.

People better create lists to train their brain regardless of if they keep up with a lot of things or not. You don’t have to wait to be busy with work or any other business to start creating it.  If you don’t work with a bunch of deadlines and pressures, it’s still helpfully effective for your needs fulfillment, productivity increasement, memory reinforcement, and creativity enhancement. It still does give your soul a therapy.

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