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sparkindarkness) wrote2008-09-13 11:45 pm
sparkindarkness) wrote2008-09-13 11:45 pm
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Today has not been productive
Are you ever so intimidated by your to-do list that you actually do nothing at all? Make no logical sense does it?
I don't work with to do lists, not written ones. A mental one I can deal with, I can review what I've done and be all achievement minded and stuff. Sure I forget things but only rarely, any lists I do make tend to be vague and scrappy - brief notes and post its scattered around saying strange things like "trousers" (do washing) or "cheese" (go shopping).
But today i was organised and wrote the vast list of crap down... and did none of it.
I mean, you just look at this HUUUGE list and the sheer horror of it makes the mind recoil and run to the most unproductive thing it can find. i spent an hour reading a freaking webcomic archive. Of a comic I've already read! Damn it brain, we're the capable one remember? The capable one does not cower in a corner and waste an entire damn day.
Also, my temperature sense is fried. I close all the windows and wrap up and it's boiling. I open windows and lose some clothes and its freezing. This? Does not amuse.
I don't work with to do lists, not written ones. A mental one I can deal with, I can review what I've done and be all achievement minded and stuff. Sure I forget things but only rarely, any lists I do make tend to be vague and scrappy - brief notes and post its scattered around saying strange things like "trousers" (do washing) or "cheese" (go shopping).
But today i was organised and wrote the vast list of crap down... and did none of it.
I mean, you just look at this HUUUGE list and the sheer horror of it makes the mind recoil and run to the most unproductive thing it can find. i spent an hour reading a freaking webcomic archive. Of a comic I've already read! Damn it brain, we're the capable one remember? The capable one does not cower in a corner and waste an entire damn day.
Also, my temperature sense is fried. I close all the windows and wrap up and it's boiling. I open windows and lose some clothes and its freezing. This? Does not amuse.
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Once you start being able to cross off the new things, you can look at those things and compare the work to the yet-uncompleted work, and feel a little more like you can actually handle some more of those items, eventually. It's actual, graphic proof that Things Can Get Done. The more you nibble away at the list, the more it's a nice symbol of Less Things To Worry About.