Due vs Do
When you assign tasks for yourself, do you give yourself a "Do" date or a "Due" date? What's the difference?
A "Do" date is the date you have decided to focus on the task and a "Due" date is the date it needs to be completed by.
Due dates can give a sense of urgency for when the task needs to be done, but not necessarily a timeframe for when you're going to actually ... do the task.
And, depending on your task management system, traditional "Due" dates can cause tasks to fall out of view until that date approaches. Until then it just lingers in your brain with everything else you need to... do. Or is lost to the task list and suddenly becomes an urgent task to complete on top of everything else that day.
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