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Brieanna Wilkoff's avatar

Oh my gosh, I could write so much in response to this. ❤️ First, I loved it, and I appreciate that you shared your actual lists. I went through a similar experience when I tried to organize a Word doc of various ideas/to-do items for my book marketing - it's a typed document that grew to 20 pages, and it felt utterly overwhelming. A friend told me about Trello. If you aren't familiar with it, it might be worth checking out - I've broken all my tasks into different categories and different priority levels, so I only regularly see a short list of my "do this week" tasks, but I have somewhere to put everything else and can move things into the top priority bucket when appropriate. It's been really helping for calming the overwhelm. It also resonated when you talked about not wanting to waste time. I definitely feel you there. Another thing I've been trying to do is focus only on what I want to do. Sometimes that means having more fun but sometimes it means working if I'm working on something that's genuinely important to me, even if it's not that much fun. But getting out of the "I should do this" mindset has been really helpful. And the last thing - I love letters too. I just starting reading a book about two people who became pen pals as kids in school and their years of exchanging letters, and how that changed both their lives. ❤️ The book is called I Will Always Write Back.

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Rachel Ooi's avatar

I am a serial "put all the to dos down somewhere" when I'm anxious or feeling overwhelmed. It's helped me somewhat at that moment, but I am not too sure if it was the right approach cause the list does not seem to reduce! I've been notion for a while now after moving from Trello, initially I had big plans for it with personal dashboards and so on but now I've stripped it to the simplicity that I need. It'll keep changing but that's me I think? I also used my agile process here in notion, you can google for free templates in notion!

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