The Death of To-Do Lists and the Birth of Creativity
Our culture’s love for busyness dominates our lives. From high school and beyond, we’re socially conditioned to think in terms of to-do lists, tasks, and checklists.
While a checklist for groceries can be useful when food shopping, using to-do lists in your business activities is not only inefficient, but it often plants the “seed of your own destruction.” To-do lists guarantee busyness without necessitating achievement and results.
There’s nothing “wrong” with being busy. In fact, as a quality of consciousness, it’s innate to our humanness. If we are unable to transcend this primal ego drive, however, we greatly limit our creativity. The general lack of creativity in the majority of mankind is a testament to this animalistic drive.
Locked in this endless pattern of activity, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to maintain the “big picture” perspective. High-level evaluation and doorways to creative inspiration are closed to the person overwhelmed by continual activity.
The wise transcend the survival instinct that often hinders our ability to manifest creatively.
Spend less time asking What do I need to do next? and invest more time connecting, exploring, and clarifying the bigger picture. If you do, you’ll find the to-dos tend to take care of themselves effortlessly.
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