How To Organize Your Tasks To Boost Productivity 📝
Published: 2021-05-30 09:17:54

Organizing your tasks is a very *underrated technique*, yet it's one of the most **effective**. In this article, I'm going to show you how I, a thirteen-year-old university student, organizes my tasks to boost levels to the 🌖.

### 🗂️ Categorization Is Key
The best way to organize your tasks is to divide them into 2 Sections. The first is your <mark>HIT Tasks</mark>, and the second is your <mark>LIT Tasks</mark>. HIT stands for **High Impact Tasks**, and LIT stands for **Low Impact Tasks**. The goal here is to divide which tasks in your routine gives you the most *Impact* (aka are the most important), and which ones don't. The tasks which DO give you High Impact are called HIT Tasks and the ones that don't are called LIT Tasks. Well, now that you know how tasks should be organized in your routine, the next step is finding out HOW you can divide your tasks. What properties of a task make it a HIT or LIT Task?

### 📝 Organizing Tasks Based On Priority
Sadly, there isn't a "*magical formula*" that can help you organize your tasks as HIT's or LIT's. The only person who can decide that is YOU. Each person has different priorities. Some people consider their most important tasks as ones that give them the most benefit for the future, while others focus on tasks that give them the most instant benefit. It depends on your preference. I would suggest taking a piece of paper and writing down all your daily tasks. Then, pick a random pair and compare them against each other. Which one is more important to you? The more important task will then be compared with another randomly selected task. So on so forth. By using this technique, you will have an ordered list of all of your daily tasks, HIT's at the top and LIT's at the bottom. After you do this, you can section off half the tasks as HIT's and the rest as LIT's, or whatever other way you prefer.

### 🔴 Do Your HIT's First
Regardless of how you feel, no matter how scared or lazy you are, <mark>**DO YOUR HIT TASKS FIRST. PERIOD.**</mark> Regardless of how difficult your HIT Tasks may be, do them first before moving onto your LIT Tasks. There are two reasons for this. The first is because, in the morning, your body is well-rested and ready to face the day. This time is when you are the most powerful, mentally and physically. So utilize this time to get your hardest tasks done. Your body and mind will thank you ツ
The second is because if you don't get your HIT Tasks done first thing in the morning, your body and mind will be too tired to finish them later in the day. Plus procrastination is REAL, so it's better to get the hard stuff done first, since procrastinating on LIT Tasks won't result in nearly as much trouble as procrastinating on HIT Tasks.

### ☕ Use LIT's As Breaks
My final piece of advice to everyone reading this is to use LIT Tasks as breaks. Let's say you have a habit of doing <u>50 curls a day</u>. Whenever you are waiting for something, whether it's downloading something or waiting for something to load, use that opportunity to get something DONE. It hardly takes 1-2 minutes to do 50 curls, so you can easily accomplish that task while you're waiting. This is called <mark>multitasking</mark>, and I'll have some multitasking articles planned that will be coming out soon.

Thanks to everyone who made it to the end. I hope you learned a thing or two from this article. Please leave any suggestions, tips, or advice you have in the comments down below. Thanks for reading and I'll see you later 👋