You Can Conquer The World: By Making One List At A Time

It’s part of my evil plan.

To conquer the world and ultimate world domination.

I make lists. Of everything!

When a list maker goes for a vacation

When The Going Gets Tough…

Make a list.

Richard Bronson swears his success by it. Tim, Oliver, James, Ryanmake lists.

Paula Rizzo calls it — Listful Thinking.

I do too.

So Why Make Lists

So you don’t have to remember to remember them. Duh!

• Yes. It helps remember
• Keeps things together. Organized
• Keep your focus, focused.
• Helps you be prepared
• Gives you an orgasm by checking/ crossing items off.

Not-so Obvious Reasons

1. To Ideate. List making is a creativity booster. Inspired by James, I make a list of 10 ideas every other day.
2. To create content. This article was a list before.
3. To conquer any project. Break it down into a list. List of simple, manageable action items.
4. For Thought Leadership. Mark Levy says it so.
5. I like making a goals list as well or things I want to be at the end of a year, five years, etc.
6. Oh! And you may want to know why Richard Bronson wants you to make lists.
7. To start with make a list of lists you want to make.
8. Get into the habit of it. Carry a notebook. Everywhere.

Remember. Listing is one way of writing. There are 10 different ways.

Making A List Is To Get There

It could be a task list, goal list, to-do list, project list, ideas list, or even a not-to-do list. Make a list.

Write it down. Make it happen. Conquer the world.

Prioritizing, categorizing, scheduling, processing — everything else is secondary.

So list. Period.

5 Must-Have Lists for Personal Optimization

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#1 Master List

A catch-all list.

Projects, tasks, ideas, notes, lessons.. anything, everything goes in here. Whether act on it or not, doesn’t matter. Knowing that my stuff is valued and is out of my brain — keeps my sanity.

I use a notebook for this. You can use any other form you want

Don’t try to process it by — categorizing it or prioritizing it. That comes later.

For now, just ensure that you catch it as it comes.

#2 Goals list

I too have list of goals

I would want to achieve.

It is a combination of want, have, to be list. Usually it is time-bound with a deadline. Or at least I artificially try to create a milestone with a time stamp. It helps me to create a sense of purpose and urgency within myself and a target to aspire for.

Beyond that, I am careful it doesn’t simply become a wishlist. I don’t just want it to be wishes, I want concrete results.

#3 Big rocks/ Focus areas list

Priorities, Focus areas, Roles, Themes, etc. It’s called by many names.

Mine are:

• Spirituality
• Family
• Writing
• Work

That’s it. I have nothing else to aspire for. My life and actions are surrounded by the above four focus areas and I ensure I don’t digress away from it.

#4 HIT/ MIT

High Impact Tasks/ Most Important Tasks.

It’s my daily must-do list. Or more positively can’t-help-without-doing-it list or feel-miserable-without-accomplishing-it list.

I don’t have to write it down daily. You just have to decide upon it.

It’s defined by your Big Rocks and should be aligned to your Goals.

3 is usually a good number.

#5 Daily Practice/ Routines list

I hate habits. But I have created a Daily Routine, with a cute Tracker and all.

It works. Freewriting & 10 ideas is my everyday force multiplier. I don’t miss them at all.