Discover how the anti-to-do list can help you avoid negative actions and habits. Learn how to create your own list for productivity and personal growth. Explore the importance of embracing discomfort for self-improvement.
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The anti-to-do list focuses on actions to avoid, helping us navigate the negative aspects of our journey towards our desired destination.
Creating a dynamic anti-to-do list, based on personal and professional struggles, provides a tool for growth and progress.
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The Power of the Anti-To-Do List
The podcast discusses the concept of the anti-to-do list as a tool to avoid negative behaviors, actions, and habits in order to achieve meaningful progress. The host explains that while a regular to-do list can guide positive actions, the anti-to-do list focuses on the actions to avoid. The anti-to-do list is dynamic, changing as one successfully avoids certain actions and adds new ones. The host provides examples of items on their own anti-to-do list, including avoiding grazing on low-value tasks, embracing new information, and not saying yes to tasks that one would not want to do in the future.
Creating Your Own Anti-To-Do List
The podcast offers guidance on creating an anti-to-do list. The host suggests writing down the personal and professional struggles one faces and using their own list as inspiration. The list should be dynamic and can start with three to five high-priority items. It is recommended to keep the anti-to-do list in sight and check off avoided actions to track progress. The host emphasizes the importance of appreciating small wins and using each day as an opportunity to become the person one aspires to be.
Every journey has two fundamental sides: (1) The Positive: Where we want to go; and (2) The Negative: Where we want to avoid along the way.
The Anti-To-Do List is our tool for governing the negative, for avoiding the traps along the journey. Your Anti-To-Do List has the set of daily actions, behaviors, and habits to avoid; the things that will hold you back or lead you into trouble.
The Anti-To-Do List is dynamic, comprised of the actions you are focused on avoiding in the present. My list changes periodically as I "graduate" (i.e. have 100% compliance for an extended period) from any one action and feel compelled to add a new one that I am struggling with.
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