Naming Your Tasks

What's in a Name
One way to make your task list more inspiring is to Reword Your Goals.

What does "Exercise" mean?
Try to word goals as flexibly or strictly as you mean them: eg. Exercise, Workout at Gym, 1 mile walk, 15m Exercise, etc.

At the end of the day, when the gym is closed, you'll want to know whether 15 minutes of unorthodox, but heart-pumping, prespiration-inducing activity counts. You don't want to feel like a cheater, when you're legitimately meeting your goal in an alternative way. Nor do you want to slowly wiggle out of a goal you mean to be strict.

What did "Pa per " mean?
Are you going to remember what you were to do with that two weeks from now? Did you perhaps mean Process Inbox Papers or Organize Craft Paper? Scan documents? Call the paper store?

What does Sesquipedalian mean?
If reading loads of text makes checking your task list a chore, keep your titles as short and sweet as you can remember:  eg. "Paper" or "Call B."

Be Galvanizing

 * Verbs, in addition to promoting clarity, can also inspire: Homemaking vs. Conquer Clutter.
 * Fun Titles: A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but aiming to Defeat the Dungeon Dragons can help inspire one to clean the basement. Tip: use Notes (if not otherwise in needed) to remind you that Sprinkle Fairy Dust means—wait, what did that mean?
 * Serious Quotes
 * eg. for a housework habit, There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. [Jane Austen];
 * or, for your most disagreeable task, you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being. [Brian Tracy]
 * taxes, Render to Caesar...
 * Incorporate Your Motivations. Describe the goal so as to remind yourself why you aim for that goal or defeat each bad habit.