Here’s a quick mental readjustment that will change your relationship with your to-do list from obligation to inspiration. Check out this video blog from Marisa Murgatroyd. In it, she describes how you can create a get-to-do list, filled with inspirational actions, to replace your to-do list filled with onerous drudgery.
Get-To-Do versus Need-To-Do
So, does your existing to-do list go away when you create a get-to-do list? Not at all! You simply reframe the items on the list. If, for example, one of the items is that you need to write a blog post for your tribe, reframe that. You don’t NEED to do it. You have the opportunity to share your wisdom with your tribe, and help them improve their lives. You have the opportunity to make a difference, and make the world a better place for your having been here. You GET to do that, you don’t NEED to do it.
How To Create a Get-To-Do List
The method of transforming your need-to-do list into a get-to-do list is simple. In fact, it very closely follows the ROAR methodology. Start with the first item on your list. Read it over. Does it provoke any emotional reaction from you? If so, validate those emotions.
I’ll give you an example. The first item on my to-do list is writing this blog post, which I’d planned to do on Sunday, but our internet went out. So there are emotions associated with that: annoyance at the internet provider, disappointment at myself for leaving it to the last minute, pleasure at having spent the day with family celebrating Mother’s Day, recognition that if I’d really wanted to write it I’d have composed it offline and posted it this morning rather than waiting until this morning to write it, etc.
Then find the good. In my case, leaving it to the last minute and suffering an internet outage allowed me to write it after receiving Marisa’s email this morning. What’s the direction, based on the good? I get to curate and comment on wisdom of others in the productivity field, for the benefit of my readers. How awesome is that? Totally awesome! That goes on my get-to-do list! Repeat for every item on your to-do list, until you have transformed it into a get-to-do list.
What are some of the things you’re excited that you get to do?
