Making Lists!

Although I make "to do" lists in my little notebook and tick off consumed items on my till receipts I am completely hopeless at filing and I hate dealing with boring paperwork.

As a result the windowsills in our bedroom and in my study are piled high with "stuff" that needs attention. This drives DH mad. So now I give him all my financial correspondence and anything else that has to be filed efficiently and he does the donkey work for me. I am not proud of my aversion to filing but I am very proud of DH as he is so meticulous and reliable.

Gosh! I'll be calling him a saint soon if I'm not careful. And that would be a step too far ...

I think a lot of it comes down to personality type. I do lists of work type tasks. I find it motivates me to write them down in pen and cross them off. Do a few easy hits and cross them through. Gives me a boost. Lists on the computer do not work nearly as well for me.
Someone I know was recently depressed and blocked about work. I suggested writing a list with one thing in it. That apparently helped!

I am a ridiculous 'list maker'. I make out a list, go shopping, oops left it at home. Then I buy some of the items on my list. I then find the list and re-write it , minus the items I did remember. I go shopping again, oops I've brought the wrong bag, the list is in the other one. I then buy some of the items I did remember. I go shopping again oh no! the list I wrote out is still on the kitchen table.

I give up for another time and start all over again. Please don't tell me I'm sad I think I've reached that conclusion myself, well at least after I had made out a list of all my faults and decided to loose it!.

The first thing I did, when I worked, and arrived at 7.00, was to make a list for the day in my page to a day diary.

Invariably, things got moved over to the next day, but the nicest thing was when my dream of a PA would sneak in and cross some things off!

Now, I have a planning notebook, which covers everything from food shopping to what-to-take-on - holiday to Christmas. It's great looking back at it and laughing at yourself and your "bright" ideas. I looked back at mt packing list for a conference last May and could not believe I took all that stuff to a place where it was entirely unsuitable.

Now, tomorrow's list.....