4. Build Your Toolbox: My Not-ToDo-List As a CEO I wanted to improve my coaching and mentoring skills, so I sent myself off to get an Executive Coaching qualification. During those courses, we discussed things that keep people back from the success they’re capable of achieving. Overwork, unrealistic expectations, and other stresses can cause people to feed into imposter syndrome. How do we deal with those stresses? My favourite tool is my NOT-To-Do-List. Say no to tasks that aren’t vital to do today. Use your practiced messaging in a way that leaves you feeling comfortable. For the time-consuming asks from others, I listen carefully, but sometimes out comes my practised mantra, “I’d like to help you with that, but I can’t fit it in just now.” At some point in my career, I started asking myself, why aren’t we spending time discussing what we shouldn’t do or don’t need to do? Or, even, what we don’t need to do now? Now, I have a not-to do-list and it astonishes me how many things on the To-Do list can shift on to the NOT-To-Do list for today, this week or forever, lightening my load considerably. Prioritise brutally and you’re getting more authentic instantly while doing only what you need and want to do. People are so pressured by their To-Do lists that they often don’t properly consider priorities. Having skewed priorities is an efficient way to become professionally insecure or burnt out and lower the quality of your output on the work and home fronts. Finally, having sifted through and shortened the To-Do list, relentlessly attack it, and feel confident in having achieved those crucial tasks! vision & strategy About the Author: Jill Bausch is the former CEO of Futures Group Europe, a coach, philanthropic strategist, facilitator, social impact advisor and author of Why Brave Women Win.
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