Just Do the Thing You're Avoiding - by Valerie - Val's Pals

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In Praise of Clearing To-Do List Debt

I am prone to being deeply in to-do list debt. At any given moment, I have maybe 30-40 messages to friends I haven’t answered in the past month, 5-10 calls I owe people, about 4-5 outstanding work tasks from the past year that I still need to complete. I say “maybe” because these are reasonable off-the-cuff estimates and also because I suspect that the numbers are far larger than this and am too embarrassed to actually contemplate it. Let’s hone in on a few examples. A few months ago, I let a bunch of full trash bags accumulate in my apartment, figuring that since I was going to have to…

Just Do the Thing You're Avoiding - by Valerie - Val's Pals

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