To-Do List Landfill

Your to-do list has one job: guide your next action.

When you dump half-baked ideas onto it—things that need more thought, more input, more strategy—you're not being organized. You're creating noise.

Every time you scan that list, your brain has to sort the ready from the not-ready, creating unnecessary friction.

Staying focused and clear means keeping two lists.

One for ideas that need incubation. One for actions that are ready to execute.

The incubation list doesn't nag you. It waits. Schedule a weekly review—ten minutes, same time, same place—to scan it with fresh eyes. That's when you decide what's ready to graduate, what needs a conversation, what can be deleted.

When you're ready to think strategically, gather stakeholders, or define the real next step, you promote an item from "someday" to "today."

Your to-do list should be a launch pad, not a landfill.