Are tasklists a tool of stress-management?
If you use tasklists, you do not have to worry about your to-do lists growing beyond a thousand items! Using a rationally prioritized to-do list is another way of admitting: You cannot do everything what others would want you to do! You cannot do everything what you yourself would want to do! Just do your best! For many, the tasklist concept will not be appealing because of their simple lack of ability to accurately estimate the following: the value of one’s time, the duration of tasks, the value generated by the successful completion of a task, etc. Without accurate valuation, tasklists will turn into quasi-randomly sorted to-do lists. In such cases, application of a tasklist might still be recommended due to the following: • the sorting order will partly reduce the stress related to the need of browsing an unmanageable list of things to do • the ability to assess the value of tasks and their duration develops gradually with time and the benefits coming from the use of a tasklist will
