Time management strategies are great. They keep us organized and on track in our hectic daily lives. At least, they do for the few humans who actually use them. Sadly, most of us don't. I, for one, rarely do, but when I do it's always checklists and my secret weapon. That weapon in the words of Nike and Shia LaBeouf is to just do it.
Checklists provide a wonderful physical representation of how much progress you may or may not have done. Writing all the tasks down provides a clear and concise, and hopefully sorted, list of tasks that you might forget about in a few hours. However, the checklist has drawbacks. Imagine how daunting a list the length of a full sheet of paper would be. Where do you even start?
That's where Shia comes in. Just do it. Chipping away at your list item by item day by day. Before long the list is three quarters of the way done. It's hard to teach this skill to someone because it falls under motivation. There has to be a goal. An end game that you HAVE to want otherwise, why even do that list? As soon as you start, you'll be forever grateful that procrastination has ended. Even if you hate doing whatever the task is.
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