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Schedule Your Daily Tasks To Achieve Success


There is a vast difference between scheduling and simple list making. While it is a good thing to have lists because they help to outline the things that need to be done as opposed to the things that do not. On the other hand a list can be an exasperating reminder of all the work left do accomplish that is still waiting.
Scheduling the task list provides the task a time schedule to be performed. Doing this simple action causes thought as to what task will be done and at what time. This might cause the list to change. For example, when using a schedule for the list, tasks that might have been first on the list might be moved down because they take longer. If there is no accounting for time to accomplish the task there is no idea of a more efficient time of day to get that particular task finished.
If a daily task list has 24 items on it and it takes an hour to perform each task, in order to achieve a successful completion of that list will leave little time for sleeping, eating, etc. Of course, it's not possible. However, this is how many people make and view their daily task list. These results in frustration at not accomplishing perhaps even part of the list.
Scheduling brings time availability to light, and forces the list to change. One of the main reasons people have success and happy, healthy, and are able to accomplish wonderful things for themselves is that they use our natural ability to think, reason, and plan ahead. This is the key separation between humans and animals. An animal is not created with the ability to reason. Intelligence they have in abundance, but they lack reason.
When considering a daily task list, try instead to schedule each task at a time for a time. Providing enough time to adequately perform the task with room for a little variation. In this manner the daily tasks are presented against real-time because you have had to consider and reason out each task and how long it will take.
By doing this you can avoid the stress and frustration of not completing your list or the feelings of being out of control. It also will help to categorize each task. In other words, if there is more time another day, and it can wait, it can be pushed a little further out and something more immediately needful put in its place.
Scheduling your daily tasks might seem to be counterintuitive in that in and of itself it is another task to add. Indeed, if scheduling is new to you it will be something to become used to doing. Yet, despite that little hurdle, once you develop the good habit of scheduling it will become something that is second nature and an essential tool for your continued success.
Bill Wright is a Personal Life Coach with years of experience in offering guidance and direction for many people. If you think you would like to know more about managing daily stress and achieving your goals, please visit http://www.billwrightcoaching.com and meet Bill!


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