Holly Richardson: Make some not-to-do and stop-doing lists

In Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, authors Burmeiser and Tierney note that the average person has 150 different tasks on their to-do list. I immediately went to my to-do list and numbered them: only 133 top-line tasks (plus 85 second-tier tasks). Phew. I’m not even average!It did make me wonder why we do things like that to ourselves.So are to-do lists good or bad? Do they help or hurt? The answer is yes.On the good side, to-do lists can help us keep track of what nee