Relegate the Administrivia

Ok, so I just took that word from the comments section of a Huffington Post article by Linda Stone, but I like it. What the commenter--and Stone herself--believes is that list makers (like you and me) often have trouble delineating the differences between big intentions and the crap that piles up day after day with no end in sight (ie administrivia).

So Stone suggests ditching the never-ending list and instead creating a short to-do list of no more than five big ideas--for the day. The other stuff--like calling a particular client--gets relegated to a secondary list. (Stone also has a bunch of other thoughts about time management in the article, but I thought they were sort of silly; there's no way I'm turning off my technology during certain parts of the day to focus on a particular "intention." But the list thing makes sense--)

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