There is a school of thought that it is more productive to write a not-to-do list as a means of rationalising your to-do list and making it more productive. You can read about that here.
However, my suggestion is to go one step further and get your human face back beyond the post-it notes and paper. Decide on having a nothing-to-do list, including not writing a list!
The list of things to do just grew
Until at last, one thing was sure:
A thing so certain that I knew
That there was no way of detour
From that goal. Throw out that list
Of things 'to do' and write instead
A nothing-to-do list. I kissed
The paper on which I'd once fed
My agitation to keep doing:
For on it now only nothing.
It I decide to do nothing
Do I even require a list.
Birds do not use a list to sing
Each dawn, or evening. I missed
The note an aardvark wrote to eat
Ants, or the one the ant might write
To advise it never to greet
An aardvark and invite it home.
A nothing-to-do list is short
Empty of words like 'must' and 'aught'.
On such a list, you never reach
The thing you know will never get
Done. No-one need show you or teach
You how to do nothing or set
A standard that is higher than
That where at peace you sit and rest.
Nothing-to-do is a human
Goal that we'll do our very best
To reach. Let what's not done remain
Undone. Join me in this refrain:
Lists are made to make us each strain
To reach those goals that increase pain.
My list is complete! Did I need the list!
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