For as far back as I can remember, I’ve been a list maker. I got the list gene from my sweet Mama who often said to me that lists are just gentle reminders. Well, as it turns out, I have these gentle reminders all over the place, whether kept in my phone, or found on random loose papers in my purse, on my desk, or even taped on the dashboard of my car.
I don’t know if I write so many lists to keep me focused and productive, or because of the fact that I find crossing off a completed note so satisfying. Just the same, I feel I have too many. Too many subjects of too many lists. This morning, I gathered them all, and laid them out on a table, my phone included. I even had a list of projects I wanted to complete last summer, and when I read it through, I’ve only completed one of the projects on there, and that project just happened within the past couple days. Seeing every item that was still pending, made me feel so unaccomplished. Should I narrow down my lists, or even perhaps forgo the lists all together?
It’s almost like I need a gentle reminder for my gentle reminders.
So I threw out the ones that I don’t reference, or haven’t referenced frequently, if at all since written. I changed the title on my to-do list to a wish list and put it on the side of the fridge – a kind of I’ll-get-to-it-when-I-can type thing. At this point, it’s all a mind game. This brought me down to two, and I can work with that.
Are you a list maker too? How do you organize them?
Mrs. J. S T Ragman says
Ughhhh. I’m tired already.!