Your To-Do Lists Are Not Boring To Me.

[cloudscudding]

Confession: I like reading other people's to-do lists. They give me hope. Here are these smart, competent people, and they have to-do lists almost as long as mine*. Somehow, they get most of the items on their lists done, which means I might too someday.

* Confession the 2nd: I don't have a to-do list. I have a to-do spreadsheet. Quail** in

Comments

[irishkathy52]

Confession: other people's to-do lists are both more interesting and more comforting that my own.

As it all likelihood I will not be back to see how much of what was on the list got done.

Sometimes I find last year lists of my own and realize with sinking feeling that some of the tasks SILL hang there and some others ... some others are undone, but not relevant any more. And I know the price I had to pay for failing to do what I was supposed to.

[cloudscudding]

Eek.

Have you read Getting Things Done? It's got a lot to say on the subject of lists, and it does help get rid of that sinking feeling! ;)

[birdfigment]

I'm glad you like lists. (I do too, even other people's.) Maybe someday I'll post the lists instead of just posting about them!

[cloudscudding]

You're easing into it with meta-lists?

[kitryan]

Oh, good. I'm always sure that no one cares if I've gotten groceries or whatever. (despite the fact that I like looking at what other people are doing or procrastinating) I would post about it anyway, for the accountability factor and lack of something more interesting to say.

[cloudscudding]

No, it's nice. Little mundane details, sometimes, sometimes things more significant--always a sense of forward progress. That's what lists give. A sense of forward progress.