{"id":8441,"date":"2019-11-19T07:20:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=8441"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:26:06","slug":"is-your-to-do-list-making-you-nuts-start-a-to-dont-list-instead-with-inspiration-from-author-adam-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/is-your-to-do-list-making-you-nuts-start-a-to-dont-list-instead-with-inspiration-from-author-adam-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your to-do list making you nuts? Start a to-don\u2019t list instead \u2014 with inspiration from author Adam Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are countless articles about how to become more productive and efficiently complete the tasks on our lists. In this article, Adam Grant shares how he&#8217;s begun to create boundaries from certain things in his life that seems to take up a lot of time, but may not be the most important areas for him to be focusing on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.ted.com\/is-your-to-do-list-making-you-nuts-start-a-to-dont-list-instead-with-inspiration-from-author-adam-grant\/?utm_campaign=social&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=linkedin.com&#038;utm_content=ideas-blog&#038;utm_term=humanities\">Is your to-do list making you nuts? Start a to-don&#8217;t list instead &#8211; with inspiration from author Adam Grant<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>To-do lists are the human equivalent of a hamster wheel. While they drive productivity and keep us on track, they just never seem to stop. Even as we cross items off, our lists just keep repopulating with more to-dos. Here&#8217;s an idea, little hamster: Take a moment to think of a few things you could cross off your list &#8211; forever.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are countless articles about how to become more productive and efficiently complete the tasks on our lists. In this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tedideas.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/03\/to_dont_stock.jpg?w=1500","fifu_image_alt":"Is your to-do list making you nuts? Start a to-don\u2019t list instead \u2014 with inspiration from author Adam Grant","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[145,42,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-productivity","9":"tag-wellbeing","10":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8445,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions\/8445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}