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The simplest time management system, and generally the simplest is the most effective, is the ‘to do’ list, which most of
us are aware of. Sadly, the concept of a daily ‘to do’ list is incorrectly used. If you seriously want to create greater fulfilment in your life, be less pressurised and achieve more, follow exactly this advice:

1. Always prepare your ‘to do’ list as soon as you have finished work for the day. It is your last business task. Do not do what most people do and compile your list as the first activity of the new day.
2. Having compiled the complete list of jobs or tasks to do the following day, number that list in order of importance. In most cases you will find that the most important is nearly always the most unpleasant. It does not matter how many tasks you have on your list.
3. The following day when you decide to start work, and this often differs from the time you go into work, start at number one and work on it until it is complete and then tackle number two until it is complete and so on through the list.