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Don't forget to diarise thinking time — experiment with a 'To Think' list
“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
A thoughtful tool to try
You’re probably familiar with the idea of a To-Do-List, that often anxiety inducing log of all those things you’ve not yet got around to. A million books have been written on productivity (with perhaps David Allen’s bagging the most believers so far) — but an easily overlooked idea is intentionally earmarking thinking time.
In You Coach You, we’re advised that, “a To-Think list reminds you of the unsolved areas you want to reflect on, and unsolved problems and challenges that you want to think through” — and encouraged to actively write down the things will need our brain power the most.
From here we can actively put time into the diary to simply get comfortable, kill those distractions and think with purpose. Simple!
Think, next week
So at the start of next week, why not write out a ‘To-Think’ list alongside your ‘To-Do’ list?
What would your top three thinking points currently be? 🤔