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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zoe Williams

It’s taken me 20 years, but I’ve finally updated my to-do list

Cropped shot of an unrecognizable woman checking off boxes on her to-do list
‘My son, endearingly, made his first to-do list when he was five, and it simply said “1. Wake up.”’ Photograph: LaylaBird/Getty Images

My time management is quite old-fashioned, mainly consisting of a to-do list. Three columns if I’m feeling particularly efficient: work; admin; personal. I never date it. There are some items that crop up so unfailingly, a smarter person would take them as given – such as “walk dog”. It’s almost as if I only put it on to give myself the illusory satisfaction of definitely having achieved something. My son, endearingly, made his first to-do list when he was five, and it simply said “1. Wake up.”

So anyway, I sat down this morning to what looked like a perfectly plausible set of tasks.

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