This song can actually help create strong, targeted to-do lists

At the start of each month, day, quarter, or year, there's immense pressure to do a brain dump of every possible action item. That overwhelming brain dump list is then turned into an unrealistic agenda with the notion of accomplishing every item listed. The result is often disappointment and losing motivation to continue with it. But it doesn't have to be that way.

I understand the pressure to "go hard or go home," especially at the half-year mark. However, you're doing it wrong if you let your tasks dictate how you feel. Instead, you should let how you'd like to feel dictate your to-do lists and daily agenda.

Yesterday, I shared that I hoped people would create goals that made them feel more like themselves on my Instagram stories. What I didn't share is the simple trick I use to apply it to my life so I can sparkle and shine. Turns out the formula for creating a fulfilling to-do list that brings me closer to myself comes down to Old MacDonald.

Who knew a farmer held the key to a motivating to-do list? It seems ridiculous, but a nursery song has helped me create an empowering daily agenda over and over...

If you can sing Old MacDonald, you can probably make a to-do list that doesn't suck the life out of you. Watch this 5-minute video to find out how...