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Chapter 13

How to Tackle Your

To-Do List

by Peter Bregman

For many of us, our to-do list has become more of a guilt

list: an inventory of everything we want to do and re-

ally should do, but never get to. And the longer the list,

the less likely we’ll get to everything on it, and the more

stressed we become.

So how do we turn intention into action?

It’s the power of when and where.

Decide when and where you’ll do something, and

the likelihood that you’ll follow through increases dra-

matically. The reason we’re always left with unfi nished

items on our to-do lists is because they’re the wrong tool

to drive our accomplishments. A list is useful as a ...