> 1. I ONLY include things that I HAVE to do. (Adding all of the, "It would be good to some day" or "I'd like to" leads to depression as described by Jeff.)
I think there's value in having exactly one, unorganized, usually-hidden "someday" list. Whenever I strike one item off the "someday" list, I know that I am not yet drowning in MUST-DO's.
Also, it makes it frictionless to give up on a task and drag it out of the "MUST-DO" list into the "someday" list. And once it sits next to the Hawaii trip for a while, it gets even easier to delete it altogether.
I think there's value in having exactly one, unorganized, usually-hidden "someday" list. Whenever I strike one item off the "someday" list, I know that I am not yet drowning in MUST-DO's.
Also, it makes it frictionless to give up on a task and drag it out of the "MUST-DO" list into the "someday" list. And once it sits next to the Hawaii trip for a while, it gets even easier to delete it altogether.