At some point I got really good with lists. I may not always finish them, but I make enough progress that it feels as though a ton of stuff is getting done. Last year I transitioned to post it notes and that was extremely effective as a visual. I have a jar that is filling up with crumpled up and completed notes. This organizing queue helped me to see what I had going on as opposed to holding it all in my head in gossamer thin lattice. I know i need to get back to the daily list of post it notes. I do not know how I ever got away from it.
Without the lists there are a bunch of things that are just not getting done in my life. I don’t see them physically, so I go play Apex or Clash Royale or contemplate some other fashion of time wasting instead of contemplating the growing pile of responsibility strewn at my feet. I was sitting with a new co-worker the other day and they (only now starting to get used to referring to people by the chosen and expected pronoun of they, but that is another post I suppose) showed me their Asana profile, suggesting I try the software. The stuff costs $500 a year, so I am out. Still, what I saw was a high tech version of my stickies, and I do not need the high tech version. The low tech is more viscerally appealing.
What I do need is to sit down and create an initial list of, well, everything. I need to write it out and break down that list into manageable notes that I can use moving forward. Yeah, that sounds like the plan.
Some Thoughts:
- I’m calling 49r’s today. I am also skipping the hours of pre-game hype.
- Why is nobody talking about the fact that Shakira is also singing at halftime?