Near people operate with To-Do lists. If yous're similar me, it seems as though that To-Do list never ends and you never check everything off of it. It'due south and so piece of cake to add together new things to the To-Do list. For those who use their email box as a To-Practice list, it tin be even worse. Our email inboxes have go an "open" list in which anyone in the world can add together something to information technology at any time.

In today'southward digital age, I accept found that a Not-Right-At present list is only as of import as a To-Do list.  In fact, I'd say you should not have a To-Do listing without a Not-Right-Now list.  What's a Non-Correct-At present list? It'due south a list on which you lot put things that you don't take time to work on right now, but you don't want to accept off your To-Practise list. Equally the aphorism says, "out of sight, out of mind." If you unclutter your heed, you'll be more effective in getting things washed.

With emails, voicemails, text letters, Tweets, Facebook messages, and the occasional old-fashioned phone telephone call bombarding us every day, it's getting harder and harder to focus. If you can't recollect, y'all can't work. You can use your Non-Right-Now list to help yous compartmentalize. Try it. Create a folder in your email inbox or on your computer called Not-Right-Now. If you're a newspaper person, write your To-Do list on the front of a piece of paper and then your Not-Right-Now listing on the back.

I've also found that the Not-Right-Now list tin exist effective in meetings and brainstorming sessions to keep focus.  Instead of saying "No, we can't exercise that," you tin can simply say, "That's a great idea, we have other priorities nosotros need to focus on at the moment, let'southward put that on the Not-Correct-Now list." It's a polite response and it's a way of acknowledging a person'south idea, and ensuring it won't exist forgotten.

Typically, I go through my To-Practise listing every twenty-four hour period. I've made information technology a habit to go through my Not-Right-At present list every week, typically on Fridays. If I'1000 falling behind, I put more things on my Not-Right-Now list. If something is added to my To-Do list during the week, I bank check to see what I can put on my Not-Right-Now list to rest it.

Even though y'all may experience some anxiety most the Not-Correct-Now listing at offset, information technology's far easier than it seems. The bottom line is you can only exercise so much, so why fool yourself with longer lists? Don't worry, if you terminate your To-Practice list, I clinch you lot that yous can always move things from the Not-Right-Now list dorsum on to your To-Do list. Though these days that seems to be a rarity for me.