TO DO list

I love lists. Something about having a picture of what needs to be done, not the mention the satisfaction of crossing something off of the list and seeing it completed.

Lately, I've neglected my list making time. This is crazy as I'm balancing 2 jobs, trying to have a social life, maintain my apartment (I'd be so embarrassed to have people over right now!), planning a move and trying to keep my sanity overall.

When I think of all that needs to be done for work (either job), it becomes completely overwhelming and I end up losing time being scattered. My new system at work (which I love!) is to write tasks on individual post-it notes. I stick them on my shelving area right in front of my face and above my laptop. I line them up in order of importance and can easily move them around if a new task comes my way. I also get to toss that post-it once the task is complete. So fulfilling!

For the other job, where I don't have an office (unless you count my desk at home), I have a planner with Sunday-Saturday where I write out tasks. Yes, I have the Blackberry that I could easily list tasks on, but for some reason, I prefer having a paper list. I think it's just easier to see the big picture that way.

I have to make lists to stay on track and make sure I'm getting everything done. I just ordered a few books that I can't wait to dig into in order to prepare for the new business endeavor, talking about structure of an organization (thanks R!), but need to limit my time working on that, until other things are done. When something new/exciting presents itself to me, it's easy to push that to the top of my list and other things get ignored. Thus...another reason to have an actual written list so I can write in new, fun things where they need to be on the list of importance.

So...was posting on my list today? No, but I did limit my time to 10 minutes to get this out. Now...I'm off to putting away my Christmas tree. Yeah...it's been a while since I've had an "around the apartment" list. ;)