a business and life you love. I got a question for you today: do you ever fight with your

to-do list? Maybe not fight with it so much as ignore it while it cries in the distance.

Today, I'm going to teach you a one-word tweak to get your to-do to-done. It does relate

to crying babies. You’ve heard of Ferberizing, right? That’s the sleep training method

where you let a baby cry it out so they can self soothe and go back to sleep. But when

it comes to your to-do list, which is probably crying right now, your to-do list is not going

to soothe itself or do itself. The trick to make your to-do list stop crying is to verberize

it. Verberizing it means making sure that every item on your to-do list starts with

a verb. Let’s take a look at a typical to-do list:

Cleaners, supermarket (milk, eggs), plan birthday party, blog post topics, do website, conference

(hotel, tickets), defrost broccoli, food/dinner, insurance.

As you can see, that to-do list is crying because it hardly has any verbs and the verbs

it does have are too big and overwhelming like ‘do website’ and ‘plan birthday

party.’ The one winner here is ‘defrost broccoli’ and that’s because it has a

specific one step verb. Items like cleaners are missing verbs altogether. I know it seems

too simple, but adding a verb like ‘go to’ in front of ‘cleaners’ or ‘brainstorm’

in front of ‘blog post topics’ can totally trigger you into action. One more thing before

we wrap up: when you verberize, you can't just use any verbs; you got to pick small

actionable, really doable verbs, things that you're going to accomplish in one setting

or one errand.

For example, ‘plan birthday party.’ That’s huge. It’s a big project that has many steps

to it, so when you first see plan, it’s totally overwhelming and you don’t want

to go near it. What if you saw ‘buy paper plates’ or ‘make guest list’ or ‘get

waxed,’ because it’s a party. Now we are getting somewhere.

Remember, from now until the end of time, anytime you make a list, you are going to

verberize it. You want to know what's next on my to-do list? ‘Wrap up video.’ I can

do that. Ready? Watch me go. Insight without action is worthless, so right now, I would

love to hear from you. What I want you to do is verberize your to-do right in the comments

below, and yes, I want you to do it in public.

This is a before and after exercise so first I want you to pick three items from your to-do

list that keep not getting to-done. Then I want you to share your new verberized list.

As always, the best discussions happen after the episode over at MarieForleo.com, so go

there and show me your new verberized list right now.

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Stay on your game and keep going for your dreams because the world needs that special

gift that only you have. Thank you so much for watching and I’ll catch you next time

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