Celebrating a Completed To Do List

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For weeks now I have not been able to get to the bottom on a daily to do list no matter how hard I tried. It wasn’t always because of ‘being busy’ it was usually due to circumstances, delays from others and miscellaneous tech failures.

When I can’t scratch off those last items on your list at the end of the day – I start to feel a general sense of overwhelm. Nobody likes feeling overwhelmed. I can only take so much of it and I start looking for ways to alleviate it. In this case though I could only surrender to the flow of each day and do what I could without freaking out about what I couldn’t.

Well, that’s not true – I did take one big action. I closed down Mom’s Morning Show, which put five hours a week back into my schedule – more when I think about time spent in preparation and administration. With that extra free time, I made more progress day by day.

It was yesterday though that I finally made it all the way through to end of a big daily to do list. Woohoo! It feels great to be starting out the week with a clean clate and a fresh head.

Of course… there’s another to do list to be made

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1. On August 4th, 2008 at 8:39 am, Heather [Girly Blog Designz] said:

I agree those to-do lists can be a booger to complete! I am happy to say though I am too caught up, and starting the week out fresh. Yay!

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2. On August 4th, 2008 at 8:43 am, Carrie said:

Great for you! And if it makes you feel even better about killing Moms Morning Show, I don’t miss it one little bit.

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3. On August 4th, 2008 at 10:01 am, Elizabeth Potts Weinstein said:

What I’ve done is I have two to-do lists … my big “project list” (that will take weeks, if not months, to complete) and my daily “to do” list that can be completed in one day.

I find that if I don’t “finish” a list each day, I feel like I have not accomplished anything. So I engineer my list to be complete-able. Besides, most projects take more than a day & have multiple tasks, and I find that my to-do list should only lists Tasks (complete-able in minutes/hours), not Projects (takes days/weeks).

~ Elizabeth

4. On August 4th, 2008 at 10:14 am, Genesis said:

Good for you! It feels good to finish that list, doesn`t it? Not that I would actually know . . .

5. On August 4th, 2008 at 10:20 am, Sharon said:

I know that feeling of being overwhelmed and can’t abide it for too long. Makes me hyper and I have to act on it. That’s why for the last 2 days I’ve been pretty tight with family time, hate doing that but I needed some dedicated time to clean up last week’s list before today.

Technically I didn’t clear it until today (6:00 a.m.):-)

Of course, like you said, there’ll be a fresh list to manage tomorrow!

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6. On August 4th, 2008 at 10:41 am, Amy said:

Congratulations on getting to the bottom of your list. I know the feeling of satisfaction I get when I can check things off my own list. Like Elizabeth, I try to only assign myself one or two key work related tasks per day – so as to create a greater likelihood of completing everything on my daily list. And like you, I have also been taking serious stock in the list of commitments on my plate. As I continue to clear the decks of the non-essential obligations, I am finding more time to focus on my three “big ticket” commitments (work, family, and personal spirit).

And for your readers that like to incorporate technology into their planning structure I recommend checking out http://www.tadalists.com/ it is a cool tool that organizes all your lists online.

Amy

7. On August 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pm, Ulla Hennig said:

Congratulations! I know the feeling too – today I managed to do some things which I have been transfering from one daily to-do-list to the next day’s to-do-list. I was so glad that I celebrated it by having a nice ice cream.

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8. On August 4th, 2008 at 10:00 pm, Lynn K. said:

Congratulations! I love looking at a completed to-do list.

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9. On August 4th, 2008 at 10:06 pm, Tara B. said:

Ahhhh, feels so good to get to the bottom, doesn’t it? I started doing lists with only 6 “HAVE TO GET DONES” per day. I feel so much better when I go to bed knowing that I actually got 6 things DONE!