The Productive Power of Lists

By: Paula Rizzo

Narrated by: Paula Rizzo, Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 35 mins

Publisher's summary

The simple to-do list can be a mighty productivity tool - after all, you’re 33 percent more likely to do something if you write it down. A list of tasks can help you approach goals in a more intentional way, set the right priorities, and hold yourself accountable. And that can help you achieve more at work and in your career.

Productivity expert Paula Rizzo shows how you can use lists to your maximum advantage. She helps you assess the work you have in front of you and identify how to best spend your time - figuring out what to work on versus what to delegate, what’s important versus what can wait. From evaluating tasks through the lens of your top priorities to embracing your own productivity rhythm and scheduling free time to recharge, her tips will empower you to accomplish more of what’s meaningful.

Key takeaways:  

• The four-step formula for creating a list-making system that will work for your life
• What a “distraction placeholder” is and how to use it
• How to find your personal productivity style and use it to schedule your days more effectively 
• Why an accountability buddy can be the secret to getting things done
• How to stay productive when working in a group
• What a “to become” list is and how it helps you envision your dream life

Paula Rizzo is the best-selling author of Listful Living: A List-Making Journey to a Less Stressed You and Listful Thinking: Using Lists to Be More Productive, Successful, and Less Stressed. She is an Emmy Award-winning television producer of more than 20 years and a media strategist and trainer. She also founded the productivity site ListProducer.com and cocreated Lights Camera Expert, an online course geared toward helping entrepreneurs, authors, and experts get media attention.  

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A perfect book summary

I love the fact that she put down all of her “productivity hacks” and made this book. No wonder why she is referred as the master of lists
Well done

Short, Sweet, and to the point!

As my title mentions, this production was short, sweet, and to the point. It was a quick summary of the author’s book and provided quite a few refreshers for me.

Very easy to asorb

No extremely novel knowledge shared but it was a good little refresher of core basics required in developing baselime habits or organization and productivity through use of lists.

Great Workshop

Love the idea of lists. Especially love the "To become list" idea. Many other great ideas and a very simple, streamlined way to make and use lists for daily task and life goals. Will be taking this one to heart.

love this!

we all think we knownhownto make list, as an engineer i use them very often, but this book definitely made me realize the power of doing a list properly! love it short sweet and to the point! super helpful!