How you approach or create your to-do list can make a big difference. Experts weigh in on how to write — and tackle — a to-do list to make it best work for you.

Prioritize Your Tasks. Although your to-do list might have 20 items on it, the reality is that you're going to get only a couple done per day (assuming that you're not writing down things like ...

To-do lists get a lot of flack, but the simple act of planning has some psychological and productivity benefits all by itself. Next Big Things in Tech Awards Final Deadline This Friday, 6/20.

Put down that pen and paper and read this first. Bonus: the real to-do lists of Ben Franklin and Johnny Cash. When I was a kid, I read a book called The Listmaker. It’s about a young girl who ...

I have a new item for your to-do list: Make a better to-do list. As I’ve written before, I’m a huge proponent of tracking all the little details of your life with spreadsheets.I would never ...

The Getting Things Done (GTD) method has been around for years, frequently cropping up on productivity blogs and forums since David Allen first released Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free ...

Why your to-do list is all wrong — and how to better manage your time . July 9, 2019 at 6:00 am Updated July 11, 2019 at 7:51 am . By . Sarah Szczypinski. Special to Seattle Times Explore.

S tarting a new venture comes with its own challenges, one of which is managing the overwhelming list of things to do.

People like creating to-do lists. It makes them feel productive and useful, as each completed task gets a well-deserved check mark beside it. In theory, all the tasks on a daily list get completed ...

Duhigg suggests that the best to-do list strategy is pairing stretch goals and SMART goals. Stretch goals are pretty much what they sound like — ambitious aims that might at first seem unachievable.