{"id":2170,"date":"2010-03-31T20:13:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T01:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2010-03-31T20:13:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T01:13:33","slug":"a-powerful-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100331-2170.htm","title":{"rendered":"A Powerful To Do List"},"content":{"rendered":"

This study<\/a> that I just read about suggests that powerful people are notoriously bad at estimating how long it’ll take to complete tasks. When I first saw the headline (Powerful People Often Too Optimistic About Task Time), I thought of my to-do list immediately. <\/p>\n

It turns out that my thought was pretty tangential. The article didn’t have anything to do with scheduling or length of to-do lists. But I couldn’t help but think of how overly optimistic I generally am about my to-do lists. I rarely complete every item on my to-do list. <\/p>\n

But I’d be willing to bet that my optimism manages to get an awful lot more done in a day than the “realistic” person who puts three items on their to-do list.<\/p>\n

Today is shaping into a pretty productive day–so my list might be a bit (5ish items) longer than normal–but this is fairly typical of my daily to-do lists:
\n(I’ve italicized completed tasks.)
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\nMorning routine<\/strong>
\n\"Make<\/p>\n