Regret is quiet. It doesn’t show up as panic or urgency. It shows up as procrastination, hesitation, and that strange heaviness when you know what you should be doing—but don’t. Most productivity systems don’t know what to do with regret. They’re built for tasks, goals, and deadlines—not for unfinished emotional business. So instead of trying to “let go” of my regrets, I did something different: I built a system for them inside Todoist. ...

Most people think time is the enemy. We convince ourselves that we are losing the race, falling behind, or that the days are simply too short. We treat time like a resource that is constantly running out. But the truth is far worse than that. You aren’t losing time. You are wasting it willingly. “I don’t have time” is the world’s favorite excuse. It is a comforting lie we tell ourselves to avoid doing the hard work. But if you look in the mirror, the evidence says otherwise. You have time to refresh your social media feed ten times a day. You have time to watch twenty short videos in one sitting. You have time to lie awake for hours doing absolutely nothing. ...