{"id":1801,"date":"2012-03-03T13:34:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2012-03-03T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T15:24:25","slug":"to-do-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"To do lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/to-do-list.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/to-do-list.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Image from: http:\/\/reclaimyourqueendom.wordpress.com\/tag\/to-do-lists\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently I have found that I&#8217;ve just not been getting the basics done in a timely fashion.  I&#8217;m talking about really basic things like cleaning my teeth twice a day.  So I decided to print off a list of daily basics each day and cross off each task after it was done.  There is room on each sheet for extra tasks too.  I&#8217;ve used this system for two days now and it works amazingly well!<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To do lists on the computer have never seemed to work particularly well for me.  Some time ago I read an article on the net which explained why <a href=\"http:\/\/the99percent.com\/tips\/6945\/If-It-Wont-Fit-On-A-Post-It-It-Wont-Fit-In-Your-Day\">to do lists on paper, and specifically on post-it notes, are better than digital ones<\/a>.  There are plenty of others that concur with the &#8216;paper beats digital&#8217; argument.  I think <a href=\"http:\/\/theorganicsister.com\/to-do-list\/\">this one<\/a> nails the reason why on the head for me: the paper list is physically far away from other distractions such as email and Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have found that I&#8217;ve just not been getting the basics done in a timely fashion. I&#8217;m talking about really basic things like cleaning my teeth twice a day. So I decided to print off a list of daily basics each day and cross off each task after it was done. There is room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}