Project Prioritizer and Planner

Why should you use a list?

Writing and utilizing lists is important not only to help remember stuff but also to help us feel better about ourselves. The idea that a person can remember everything they need to do inside our heads with no external help is completely illogical. People aren't robots and tend to forget things, but this is where lists can help. Writing all the tasks you need to complete on a list, will save you the stress of having to memorize every small task or large project you need to work on. Another thing that lists do is make you feel better when you complete an item. When you cross out or check the box on a list, your brain gets a little dopamine. Dopamine is a chemical your brain makes to produce happy feelings. This makes you feel better about it and will make you want to do more. This also can help you feel better about yourself when you see all that you have accomplished.

Using lists for projects

Large projects can also be broken up into lists. By splitting the work up into multiple smaller pieces you can take a more reasonable approach to the situation. Take each small part of a project into a list item. An example of an essay is at the bottom of the page. You will see that in the example that the essay is cut up into eight different list items. This makes the essay less intimidating as long as a list item is completed every couple of days, the project will become more approachable than looking at it as a whole.

An example of using a checklist for a project