Forget Your To-Do List – Make a ‘Done’ List

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During a weekly team meeting at one of my previous positions, a co-worker had a novel idea: Instead of just taking turns going through all the tasks we had on our plates and coordinating with one another on various upcoming project to-dos, as we usually did, we would also share a few things we accomplished at work over the past week. It was a healthy, beneficial suggestion in a workplace where it seemed all employees blindly rushed from one task to the next without pausing to take a breath.

Unfortunately, my co-worker’s idea was quickly shot down by others in the room. Why? “Our meetings run long even when all we do is hash out what we need to work on. We don’t have time for that,” one team member said (more or less).