{"id":960,"date":"2023-01-10T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2023-01-08T21:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T02:25:40","slug":"keep-your-to-do-list-from-becoming-a-to-do-do-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your To-Do List From Becoming a To-Do-Do Pile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ManThe “Well” blog of the NYT<\/a> showed their Top 10 stories for improving your mental health. While doom scrolling through the list, #4 came up.<\/p>\n

“Free yourself from task paralysis<\/em><\/strong>”\u00a0This one was practically pointing a finger at me.<\/p>\n

Do you guys get this as well?<\/p>\n

It’s when you have 37 things to do, and all of them have gotten downloaded to your brain’s desktop in one big jumbled pile. You can’t even make a To-Do list because they are all mentally present for you in that mound of chaos, all at once. A that point, it’s officially become a To-Do-Do pile.<\/p>\n

They called this “Task Paralysis” and fine. But for me, I call it spinning because I’d mentally start on one project, which triggered something I had to finished for another, which triggered an unfinished portion, of then next one, and on and on until the 37th one triggered the task I started with in the first place!<\/p>\n

I have to think Task Paralysis must be a super common affliction, especially in small businesses where everyone wears multiple hats.<\/p>\n

For me, I had to mentally manually take those 37 things and put them off my desktop until there was only one thing left. Just one. Only then could I focus on a task without my ADD kicking in [Squirrel!]. Only then does that To-Do-Do pile turn back into a simple, doable To-Do list.<\/p>\n

If you have something you do to manage this issue, respond here I’d love to hear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Task Paralysis can happen to us, and makes it harder to get anything done. This article gives one solution to organize your thinking to stay productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health","category-stress","tag-to-do-list"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/in-office-too-many-tasks-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kBci-fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}