Last week I realised I was carrying too much in my tasks app, Todoist.
Not just tasks, but ideas.
Not just ideas, but principles.
Not just principles, but habits I felt I ought to be living by.
At first glance, that felt organised.
In reality, it was noisy.
The Todoist inbox is a good place to capture things I might want to do, as long as there’s a habit of reviewing it and deciding what becomes a real action.
But principles – and habits expressed as ideas – are different.
They aren’t tasks to be completed.
They don’t belong on a list that asks me, every day, “Are you going to do this now?”
So I removed them.
What surprised me wasn’t relief from having fewer items.
It was how much clearer the remaining tasks became once they weren’t competing with ideas about how I should live.
Nothing new was added.
No tool was changed.
Clarity came from subtraction, not effort.
I’m left wondering:
what are you carrying in your system that was never meant to be a task in the first place?
