Q. I currently keep a static to-do list, and I would like to update it to be more dynamic. Do you have any advice? A. Microsoft Excel is best known for crunching numbers, but it’s also a powerful tool ...

Before I started my own company, I worked as a software developer for a New York media company. I had a colleague—let’s call him Neil—who was a brilliant designer. But he was also a perfectionist.

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The more that other people can do for you, the more you can do overall. In an ideal world, your to-do list consists of things that only you can do. Your art, your magic, those things that play to your ...

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Many to-do lists fail because they’re often too vague, overwhelming or not prioritized effectively. Find out how to fix yours today. Traditional to-do lists are failing to boost productivity for ...

You know it's important to prioritize your to-do list, and may have tried various methods to do so, from the Eisenhower Matrix (to determine how timely and urgent each task is), to the Pareto ...

The world seems to run on to-do lists. You have one for work, another for chores, and a few for long-term goals that are scratched in a planner or scribbled on a sticky note. Writing everything down ...