Planning ahead: To do lists
Do you have plans for the weekend? Or do you let things simply happen?
There are certain things that I know I have to do each weekend - like do the washing and fetch some groceries. But other than that - the rest I play by ear. I've found that living by to-do lists and the clock all week, makes me want to rebel over the weekend, find all the notepads and pens and stick them somewhere. My problem is - by not having a list of jobs that need doing, then I do forget to do some of them, so then I spend a frantic couple of hours on a sunday evening trying to do the ones that I conveniently forgot about. Consequently all my hard earned rest and recuperation goes out of the window.
So as much as I don't like to live my life with a series of post it notes stuck on my forehead - sometimes it is the only way to pace the tasks and allow yourself time to do those things we really want to do with your spare time.
It's a simple fact, that we can waste a lot of time simply by being busy.


August 18, 2006 at 16:32
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