The first thing that I do when I get to the office each day is to make a To Do list. The point isn’t so much to make sure that I get everything on the list done that day. It’s mostly really just to clear my mind.

You see, if I don’t make a To Do list then I tend to have too many things swirling around in my brain. I’ll be in the middle of answering email when I’ll suddenly remember that I need to look into projector rentals and laptop rental for an upcoming convention. Then that will remind me that I need to invoice the client that I met at the same convention last year. And so on and so forth. It all swirls around in my head and I have trouble focusing.

By making a To Do list, I take all of those things out of my head and place them on the page. I don’t need to think about them anymore because I know that the list is there to remind me of what needs to get done. If something new does float into my brain, I add it to the list so that I can promptly forget about it. I think that this makes me more efficient than I could ever be if I tried to keep a mental list of all that I need to get done.

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