I finished the last project on my summer To-Do list. It was very satisfying to crumple the list and toss it in the trash. True, I would probably remember to do everything even without the list, it's just more fulfilling to cross things off as they are accomplished! No one ever accused me of being entirely sane!
The symbolic tossing of the list made me stop and think: have I really done everything that I set out to do this summer? Well, no. I really meant to take the girls bike riding at the Elementary School playground a few times. I hoped to have the house sold. I still have photos from Christmas that need to go into an album. I could make another list of things I DIDN'T do, but I won't.
I need to go start my Fall list...
T
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I'm not quite that far gone that I've gone off to make a new list. Really!
T
I think that is a terrific accomplishment...to actually finish a to-do list! You are indeed a most industrious person...
Lists. Hmmm. Are they for me or against me??? Maybe I'll put on my list:
1. think about making a to do list;
2. do not lose proposed mental to do list, as in Frog and Toad and so totally incapacitate myself;
3. think more about making to do list;
4. forget about making to do list.
This list I may actually be able to check off and throw away.
I honestly used to have a really BAD problem with lists...couldn't sleep at night because I was afraid I'd forget to put something on a list...that evolved to waking repeatedly at night to write a list...obsession with crossing things off the list, etc. Had to get treatment for that. Now I'm careful with the lists!
T
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