One additional, related step I’m now practicing is moving actions from my Action lists to a Someday list. I keep a separate Someday/Maybe list as well. My Someday list is stuff I want to do, but don’t need quickly. My Action lists can get quite long, and this was a way to avoid them from getting too long. When they got too long, stuff would start bleeding onto my calendar because as Kelly mentioned, I knew I would look at it.

I realized I was putting a lot of stuff in an Action list, but it was low priority and I only knew that by looking at the item several times and skipping to something else more urgent. For me, it then becomes a Someday item and my Action lists become cleaner!