Although you can choose between starting the day with the easiest task or starting the day with the hardest task, there is a far better approach. Starting the day with the easiest or hardest task is suboptimal. Why? Because importance nor reward is taken into account.

The best thing you can do is to:

Start the day with the most important task

This has the biggest payoff. The most difficult task is often not important at all – but the actually most important task? Boy, if you make just a little progress on that, you will feel great.

But what if you are not feeling like doing the most important task? Or, what if you are not feeling like working at all? Well, then:

Start the day with the most fun task

This will shoot your motivation up. It will feel rewarding.

This approach can be especially of benefit for you if you have problems with procrastination. If you are feeling like procrastinating, this can save the day! (Another solution might be to break the most important task into tiny sub-tasks, then eliminating them one by one. See my previous post Deal with procrastination with 100% success)

There are numerous benefits:

1. Quick reward
2. Feeling productive
3. Feeling motivated
4. Most importantly: Things in motion tend to stand in motion – that’s the physics law. If you have finished one task, why not finish a second one? And then another, and another? Go get them!

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Please note: If you want to print a whole to-do list, multiple to-do lists, or memos, then you do not need this guide. You can just use File – Print or Export. It allows you to specify which to-do lists to print/export, supports filtering, and more.

If you want to print a single task, or multiple tasks, here is how:

Step 1: Select the task(s)

First, you need to select the task that you want to print. You can also select multiple tasks. If the tasks you want to print are not in the same to-do list, you can switch the view mode to “All To-Do Lists” (using the View menu),

Step 2: Use Task – Print or Export menu item

Now just go to Task menu and click Print or Export Task(s)…. You can also right-click the task selection – this will display similar menu, that also has the Print or Export Task(s)… option.

Step 3: That’s it!

You can now just click the Print or Export button. You can optionally configure the output.

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Why is it hard to focus

There are usually two main reasons why is it hard to focus: Suboptimal system of organizing your work, and distractions. Organizing your work is a breeze with our to-do list program. Distractions are whole another chapter.

Two ways of overcoming distractions

Are you spending too much time on Facebook or surfing the web? There is still hope! Basically, you can do two things about distractions: Eliminate them, or distract yourself from them :-). Let me explain – if you fully focus on something else, then the distractions can’t distract you anymore.

How to fully focus

The best way to fully focus on one important task (or multiple tasks – a short task list) is to print or write the task on a sheet of paper and place it in front of you. That way, whatever you do, you will always end up looking at the paper, which will make you remember that you have important task/tasks to do. Having something physical to remind you increases the urgency and seriousness – you simply can’t close the paper like a window on your computer screen. It stays there until you finish the task.

As an added bonus, the feeling of accomplishment is also far greater. Enjoy tearing the paper to little pieces when the task is done :-)

Swift To-Do List enables you to print just a single task (or multiple tasks), including notes and all important information about the task. Simply right-click the task, and select Print or Export Task(s)…:

When you print the task, you will literally transform it into a task at hand.

When all else fails, post a physical note directly to your computer screen. Why? There is no avoiding it. Even digital desktop sticky notes can be easily avoided, but not this one.

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