To do list tally

[dendrophilous]

I often feel like I get nothing done. Usually once I think back on what I did in a day, that’s demonstrably not true. To prove it to myself, last weekend, a four-day weekend, I counted up how many tasks I checked off my to do list.

Items on the to do list and completed: 40
Items not on the to do list and completed: 16 (including installing new

Comments

[seph_ski]

I tend to add to my task list at twice the rate that I complete things. I can start the day with 20 tasks and end with 30, forgetting that I crossed 20 things off and feeling kind of glum about how much I have to do. heh.

[dendrophilous]

It would have required effort for me to track what got added during the weekend, so I didn't. I am constantly adding things, though I usually manage to add them to my future tasks rather than the current day.

Though I do have to clean out my "today" list every few days, since it tends to accumulate more tasks than I can actually do in a day.