The world seems to run on to-do lists . You have one for work, another for chores, and a few for long-term goals that are scratched in a planner or scribbled on a sticky note. Writing everything down helps you clear out your head and keep track of your progress. It also feels so good to cross things off.

But when you don’t get to cross something off, it can be frustrating. It can make you feel like you didn’t do anything important, even if you were super busy all day, and that, in turn, can make you feel unaccomplished in general. To avoid the dreaded “I didn’t get anything done” feeling, many people like to keep a “reverse to-do list.”

The idea is to write down everything you did in a day, even if it wasn’t anything from your actual to-do list. On TikTok, creator and therapist @lel

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