3 simple tips to improve your ToDo list

Everyone keeps ToDo lists. That's an efficient and proven way to do a number of things and keep track of them.
Although it may seem simple enough there are some areas that you might want to know to improve your efficiency with ToDo list.

Tips for efficient planning:

Write down your tasks using actionable and deliverable words
Try to avoid non-deliverable verbs: "think". Use actionable ones: "Do", "Make", "Create". This way when you complete an item from ToDo list you will have something "Done", "Made", "Created", so you will have some concrete deliverable.

Bad examples:

• Think about the domain name for a site
• Think whether to use a free controls library for your web site

Good examples:

• Search an article of choosing domain name, and read it
• Write down 5 alternatives for domain name
• Write down pro's and con's of using free web control

Don't write what you can't do, write what you can do!
Write down concrete, physical actions that you can do right away. Use a set of little actions that will move you towards your goal, instead of big items that can't be done right away. This way you can pick item and do.

Bad example:

• Do diploma

Good example:

• Write the list of topics for diploma

Be concrete: use details, numbers, dates
Using details in ToDo list will make you more concrete, and achieve what you exactly want, when completing an item in ToDo list. It is in the humans nature to pay less effort or time for achieving a goal, so if you don't put concrete details when writing down an item you are in a danger of doing less than you initially planned. Providing details will make you do exactly what you wanted.

Bad example:

• Make a list of options

Good example:

• Write at least 5 options