As the title says, I’m getting pretty overwhelmed by a growing list of tasks I have to do. Laundry is piling up, I still need to unpack my car from a roadtrip last weekend, and an issue I’ve been working at work has been dragging on for too long.
What are your techniques for resetting and getting through tasks that have been sitting around for too long?
Have you made a physical list of all the things you need to do, or is it all in your head? I find that writing down my to-do list to start makes things more manageable because it’s one thing less to do, which is to remember the list to begin with!
Once everything is out of my head I try and look to see if there is anything that I can do at the same time, or things with overlapping tasks, similar locations (if I have to run errands outside the house), or maybe just things that are the same but for some reason I’m my mind I just kept them as separate tasks. Sometimes I can make my list shorter by just combining things.
From there I usually try and see if there are any tasks that will take me give minutes or less, I do a task, I physically cross it off the list. The relief that I feel from physically crossing something off my list is amazing. And it’s incredible how much you can sometimes shorten your list by getting rid of those little 5 minutes tasks.
After I do the little five minute tasks, then I move up to longer tasks little by little until they’re all crossed off.
Best of luck, you’ve got this!