When you have things that you have to do or you want to do, it helps you improve your concentration if you make a list of them and decide the order of priority. However, if you have too many thoughts about those things, you get distracted and fail to fulfill your goal. This is when you need to make a list of things to throw away.
Arianna Huffington, an influential journalist in America, made a list of things she was not good at, things she didn’t like, and things she thought she might be able to do it someday but in reality, there was no possibility in doing it, on her 40th birthday.
For example, one of the things in the list was skiing. She didn’t ski, nor did she like it enough to make time to go skiing. Just because many people around her liked skiing, she wanted to go skiing together with them. After making a list of things that she thought about doing someday, she decided to forget about them and felt free.
In our lists, too, there may be many things we wrote because of various reasons but are unnecessary. If we send them to the list of things to throw away, we will be able to focus much more on the things that we truly need to do.