Perhaps every motivational speaker would tell you that to be more productive, you should create a “to do” list and then check away the items one by one, since seeing things getting done will give you the feeling that you’re achieving something and you’d be motivated to do more and in a better way! Makes sense! But what they probably wouldn’t be telling you to do is to create a “NOT to do” list! Weirdly, a “not to do” list would be more effective in increasing productivity, because.....