Quite possibly the most whined about thing in business. The never ending to do list. We hear it from both corporate cubicle dwellers and entrepreneurs alike.
So before any of us choose to complain about all the things we have to get done we might consider the antithesis for a moment – An empty to do list.
Firstly, it’d mean we have no business ‘upside’. That we’ve run out of ideas on how to move forward. Or worse it’d mean we didn’t have any goals. By definition we would not be engaged in, or have action plans which will improve ourselves or our business. This is the worst possible scenario I can imagine.
In fact the longer the list – the happier we should be. It should be the most exciting time in business and startup land. A time when we can be prolific and achieve the most. The long list ensures we can win because we have so many ideas to test and options we can take. The trick is not to obsess with all the stuff we aren’t getting done, but promoting the game winning activities to the top of the list and implementing as quickly as possible.
In the end it’s what gets done which matters, the projects we finish. Not how many new and groovy ideas we have waiting.