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To make a list start with. A brain dump. Chunk out your brain dump. Chunk out your chunks. Find out what u need to do for each task in the smaller chunk (smaller list). Start with the hardest thing in the list to prevent you from stopping.

Checklist method: task completed colour it in. If the task is halfway, colour it in diagonally. If it just started and measurable things have not be done leave blank.

Types of lists: daily, project, things to over, things to research, things to find, when those things get to you

No matter what you’re doing or how good you are, you are going to run into a thing that you don’t know how to do who fuh if you are not devoted to that thing you are good at; you will stop. However if you are simply into what you are doing, you will not stop until the you have completed it.

Obsession of something is often the seed of real excellence. It inspires new ideas, it demands they are brought to fruition with exacting care, and it drives them to completion.

Asking for help is not a failure unique for you. You must learn to ask for help

Providing negative feedback allows u to invest in people. Negative feedback allows them to improve if you believe they have potential. If they do not, just cut ties with them.

Deadlines are also excuse busters. They help remove the what if questions and force you to just create something’s

Deadlines in the creative clutter will help you trim the pretty branches on the decision to cut we that sidetrack you. Deadlines without a goal will cause you to spend equal times on things that don’t require equal time

You need to learn how to build a full mental picture of your project, and then you need to draw it out. Rendering it as a physical medium allows you to work out the kinks, come up with an order of operations, refine the details and also experiment. No matter how complete it is in your head drawing it out will reveal things you haven’t considered. List making id important for this