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To Do List: Write Specific Yet Concise To-Dos for Your Future Self email this discussion to a friend?

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Writing tasks for our to-do lists, we often err in one of two directions: either your tasks are too scarce on details or they're chock-full of way too much information. Blogger Ethan Schoonover suggests writing down tasks as though you're delegating them to someone you know in order to write succinct but complete tasks.The secret to all this is that, when you are writing down your deferred tasks "normally," in truth you're actually delegating but you just don't realize it. You are simply...

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