Get to, Want to, Must do

Managing our time and energy is a core aspect of self-care. One of the best measures for this management is our to-do list. This important tool for managing our time can also become a key tool for a gratitude mindset. Some of the regular advice for managing a to-do list includes doing the most disagreeable task first or prioritizing by importance and urgency. However, both of these approaches first require our evaluation of the items on our to-do list. In the process of that evaluation, we can reduce the stress of our task list by approaching tasks from an attitude of gratitude.

Rather than thinking of your list as a set of duties or obligations, try re-framing some of these as privileges or opportunities; in other words, move items of your list from “got to do” to “get to do!”

Of course, some tasks are easier to reframe than others, but if we can shift our view of even some of our obligations to privileges, the emotional boost will provide greater joy, energy, and balance to our day.

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