So much to do, so little time… Understanding the underlying triggers of your mountain of ToDos can guide you in creating the systems to deal with them more easily.

Broadly, clutter tends to be the result of unfinished projects or situations:

• conflicting priorities (”Everything is important so I’ll do several things at once.”),
• unidentified actions (”I don’t know what I need to do next for that project.”),
• unscheduled-yet necessary-actions (”I’ll get to preparation for tax returns someday.” or “I’ll deal with that person later.”),
• confusion about how to proceed (”I just don’t know where to put this stuff.”)