The Checklist Book by Alexandra Franzen
Author:Alexandra Franzen [Franzen, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781642501193
Publisher: Mango Media
Published: 2019-11-03T15:24:10+00:00
Making a Daily Checklist can change your life.
In this chapter, I’ll teach you my method for creating a Daily Checklist.
As the name suggests, a Daily Checklist is a checklist for one day of your life, not your entire year, season, or month. Just one day.
Purpose of the Daily Checklist.
The purpose of the Daily Checklist is to help you:
•Feel calm, focused, and organized as you move through your day.
•Make a plan for your day that reflects your personal approach to life, a plan that feels meaningful to you.
•End each day feeling proud of yourself—with a visual record of all the things you’ve accomplished. (All of those victorious checkmarks!)
I want to emphasize that a Daily Checklist is not just “a list of stuff to do.” It’s more than that. Your Daily Checklist includes tasks you need to complete and moments you want to experience. Things you need to do and things you want to do. Both.
In the previous chapter of this book, we explored questions like, “What is your approach to life?” “What really matters to you?” “How do you want to spend your time on the planet?” Your Daily Checklist is an opportunity to take your answers to those questions and translate them into specific items that you can check off throughout your day. You’re taking big ideas and making them small and achievable.
If an archaeologist five hundred years from now discovered one of your Daily Checklists—say, buried in a time capsule—this archaeologist would learn a lot about you just by glancing at it. They’d learn what you care about, what your top priorities are, and what a “good life” looks and feels like to you.
One day. One page.
Ideally, your Daily Checklist is short enough to fill just one sheet of standard 8.5” x 11” paper. One day. One page. Not multiple pages.
Brevity is key. You want your Daily Checklist to include the most important tasks and moments of your day (which feels good), but without being excessively detailed and lengthy (which feels overwhelming).
Too many pages…is not good. I’ve tried this. Personally, it doesn’t work well for my brain. I’ve found that having a multi-page checklist for my day usually leaves me feeling exhausted/anxious/overwhelmed before the day has even begun! One page feels much more doable.
“Night before” planning is important.
You will make your checklist for tomorrow…today.
For instance, if today is December 9, then today you’ll make a Daily Checklist for December 10.
That way, when you wake up tomorrow on December 10, your checklist for the day is already ready, prepared, waiting for you. Your day can begin on a clear, focused note (“Okay, it’s a brand new day, here we go! I know what I’m doing today!”) instead of confusion/overwhelm/inertia/etc.
This becomes a beautiful daily ritual. Towards the end of each day—perhaps in the late afternoon, early evening, or as you’re winding down for bedtime—take a few moments to consider, “What’s my plan for tomorrow?” Then take a few minutes to update your Daily Checklist so it’s ready for tomorrow. Get your checklist sorted out before you head off to bed.
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