How to Write a To-Do List that Won’t Drain Your Soul

Wesley Rast
3 min readApr 19, 2023

Put your to-do list, and yourself, out of your misery and get more done.

Frodo carrying the one ring up the slopes of Mount Doom, under the baleful eye of Sauron.
Image by DALL-E

If you’re like me, you probably have a to-do list that’s longer than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. And every time you look at it, you feel like Frodo carrying the One Ring to Mount Doom. But don’t despair, there’s a simple way to make your to-do list more manageable and less draining. Here’s how:

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