Ignore your oppressive to-do list, life coach Kristen Glosserman says. Replace it with a shorter, more powerful and encouraging “do list” each day. Make one of the items on it your “commit”: If you accomplish nothing else, at the end of the day you'll have completed this commitment. Make it something you’ve been avoiding, and the weight off your mind will be the reward.
“When you commit and actually follow through, you learn how to keep a promise to yourself,” she wrote in her book, “If It’s Not Right, Go Left” (2021).