Spend more time living, and less time wandering the dairy aisle.
The guiding principle is that you get any checklist—the tasks you need to do, the things you need to remember—out of your head and written down somewhere. So when you go to pack for a trip, or begin your work week, or shop for food, you aren’t reaching into the back of your brain to figure out what you might want to consider doing or getting or including. You aren’t inventing your plan from scratch every time, reminding yourself of all the things you don't want to forget.
We don't delete things unless we’ve completely moved on from that item—we just add a checkmark in the column next to the list as we pack it, or write “skip” if we don’t need it this time. Then it’s easy to search and find out if we’ve already included a sun hat or aThe master grocery list works more or less the same way—it's a reference list of all the staples we generally need to have around.
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