That’s the ultimate productivity trick. I use it often when cleaning up my to-do list. I also try to share this mindset with my team.
Sometimes you add an idea to a project or bring it up for discussion, and weeks later it’s still sitting there. When you do a big cleanup, you notice it again. You’re not sure if you should act on it. You don’t want to delete it, but you don’t want to do anything with it either. You feel stuck.
That’s when the magic sentence helps: if it’s a good idea, it will come back.
So let it go. If it really matters, in a week, a month, or even a year, the idea will return. And when it does, it may come back stronger, clearer, and more relevant. That’s when you’ll know it’s time to act. Or it never comes back, because it wasn’t that good after all.
Bastien, Asana Expert
i.DO (Asana Partner: Services & Licenses)
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Good point. My task list is filled with 30+ tasks of things i should or want to come back to. Un-assigning them means i will love them in the sea of projects we have. Completing them doesn’t feel right. Sometimes i shove them in a section of “Misc” stuff for when there’s but come January 1st when i try to clean things up i realize not much gets done from there and i spend extra time now re-reading all these things. Need to just learn to let it go.
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In that case, park those tasks in an “idea” project and simply have a recurring task “Review ideas” once a month. I can guarantee you’ll procrastinate this one as well, but at least the volume will be reduced to one task. I call this the “parking” approach.
OR assign yourself on a single idea, and this task is blocking the next idea. So that you only work on one at a time. I call this the “iceberg” approach.
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