What is on your To-Do list today? Go to work, walk the dog, make cookies for the bridge club, write Aunt Martha, clean the windows, wash the floor, get groceries, get a car wash, pick up the mess in the laundry room, do the laundry, rake the leaves, return library book, vacuum..........blah blah blah and on and on it goes. I don't know about your To-Do list but mine sometimes looks almost as crazy as this list (If I have one at all). Sometimes my To-Do list is not on paper but rather a tape playing and looping around my brain all day long with each loop reminding me there is something still needs doing. On occasion the loops play so quickly and things become so overwhelming, I do nothing and fall down exhausted at the end of the day because I have expended so much energy wondering how I am going to get everything done and have indeed accomplished nothing or very little!
Sound familiar?
Well..........(not suggesting you become a lazy sod or a total couch potato) I think we all need to examine our To-Do lists very carefully because most of the time (whether written or taped) our lists are unrealistic. Life is too complicated and moving too quickly to be adding further obligations for ourselves (especially those we can't fulfill).
We could have a MASTER To-Do list from which we choose our daily tasks (maybe choosing one or two things each day depending on the size of the task) those couple things now becoming our Daily To-Do list. That would be less overwhelming and more easy to accomplish.
Also important is to have AT LEAST one item on your To-Do list that is fun and just for you ie: take a long hot bubble bath.......walk in the park.......work on your scrapbooking project.......sit in the sun.........watch the birds (something you enjoy doing and will bring a smile to your face).
..........Remember a precious moment missed is a moment gone so capture every single moment dear to your heart........let not one escape. The less important things (although they need doing) remain and can be done another day. The dirty laundry will not get up and walk away, the car needing a wash will be there to wash another day, the windows will be in no greater need tomorrow than they are today.........I think you get my drift.
What's on you To-Do list?
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Go write blog that is now on a yesterday to do list :)
I think the "overwhelming" thing is what keeps me from WRITING to do lists... I just keep it all in the noodle and work on deadlines and days off ... sometimes too many of the prior and not enough of the latter. Good thing most things are things that I enjoy.
Short thought-provoking blog - good.
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