From the course: Get More Done in Less Time
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Dreading a task
From the course: Get More Done in Less Time
Dreading a task
- So here's something to love and hate. In the next two minutes, I'm going to give you a tool that's going to bring great relief to your life if you're willing to pay a small price. Now, I don't mean money. Nothing's for sale. I mean, facing some of the things you're putting off. Listen, I make these lessons for myself as much as you. I am very familiar with deferring difficult tasks for far too long than I should. So, in an effort to reform myself, I made a tool I call the to-dread list. Now, it works exactly like it sounds. The to-dread list contains everything you probably should do but really don't want to. It's that overdue email reply, that loving but corrective feedback you need to give to a coworker, dealing with a bill you've been avoiding. All of those things are typical to-dread list items, but, of course, your list may vary. So take some time and write them down on one list. Maybe you normally group items by…