Monday, December 7, 2015

Top Five: Reasons for Lists

I love lists.

The older I've gotten the more I've come to rely on them. Just sitting at my desk and glancing at the plethora of sticky notes that surround me, I can find 8 lists. And those are just the ones that aren't buried under other lists.

To do lists, grocery lists, lists of people to send things to, lists of keyboard shortcuts (the ones I use just seldom enough that I forget between uses), lists of authors, lists of swag to make . . . SO MANY LISTS!

So today, I am making my TOP FIVE reasons for lists. (Yes, a list about lists! I love it!)

  1. They make me feel accomplished. Sometimes, I put things like "shower" or "eat breakfast" on my To Do list just so I can feel more accomplished by crossing it off. Seriously, you should try it because crossing things off feels AWESOME!
  2. They take away my stress. For me, lists are better than a back massage. I get immediate results without actually doing anything! Plus, lists cost pennies (a bit of ink and a piece of paper) unlike back massages. And there goes some more stress as I think of all the $$$ I just saved!
  3. I forget less. Before I had kids, I rarely made lists or wrote things down. I could just remember. Not so anymore. And this is stressful (see #2)! I hate forgetting things. Feel HORRIBLE when I forget things. But with lists, the paper does all the remembering for me! Perfect.
  4. They are visual evidence to OTHERS of what I've accomplished. So my husband is really good about not asking "WHAT did you DO all day?" when he gets home and sees the mess that is our house (except right now. It's clean. Really. Well not my office, but the rest. For sure.). But if he did, I could just pull out my list and boom! Evidence. I did work. See how long that list is? . . . Hey! Honey! Yo. You don't need to read what's on the list.
  5. Legit procrastination tool. Sometimes I just don't want to do something. I don't! But I might feel guilty just doing nothing. So I make a list instead. It's brilliant! Not only am I doing something productive, but I'm finding reasons to put off that one thing that I really don't want to do. Clean the bathrooms, you say? Oh dear. My list tells me I need to read this book first. Sorry. It's on the list! 
So there you have it. My top five. Now, why do you love lists?

7 comments:

Andrea said...

#1 and #4...oh absolutely!!!!

Hilary Melton-Butcher said...

Hi Janet - I make notes as lists .. and lists as notes - then they get scratched out, more notes jotted around and so it goes on. Today - I hope to clear one post I need to write, then clear some of these illegible lists and take out what's important onto a new list! So it goes on .. I intend to get a note book that I use all the time - tick off, deal with etc etc ...

May or may not happen! A great deal lives in my head - that hasn't got kids to clutter the brain up with! Cheers Hilary

Susanna Leonard Hill said...

I love lists for all the reasons you love lists, Janet! :) And I do the same thing with putting things like shower and walk the dogs on my list just so I can cross them off. Sometimes I even add things I already did that morning...! :)

Emily R. King said...

Totally agree. I don't know what I would do without my lists! I hope you're having a good Christmas season, Janet!

-b9 said...

I have a sweetheart named Janet... she's Upstairs at the present moment; you may certainly see her if we do 2 things: love Jesus and love our neighbor, no how hard we fall, Jesus likes it best if we turn2Him after. Follow me...

If 'freedom lies in being bold' (Robert Frost), doesn't pushing-the-envelope result also in the Elysian Fields of Utopia? If I'm the sower, we plant the Seed; if I'm an artist, we RITE the symphonies heard Upstairs ☆IF☆ you accept His lead withe orchestra...

Wanna find-out the fax, Jak, in a wurld fulla the 'power of cowards'? Wanna wiseabove to help a 'Plethora Of Wurdz' [POW!] which are look'n for a new home in thy novelty?? Yay!

Q: But [gulp] can anyone tell me the difference between K2/IQ? A: Nthn. In Heaven, we gitt'm both for eternity HA! Need a few more thots, ideers, wild wurdz (whoa, Nelly! easy, girl!) or ironclad iconoclasms?

VERBUM SAT SAPIENTI (Latin: words to [the] wise): As an ex-writer of the sassy, savvy, schizophenia we all go thro in this lifelong demise, I just wanna help U.S. git past the ping-pong-politixx, the whorizontal more!ass! we're in...

"This finite existence is only a test, son," God Almighty told me in my coma. "Far beyond thy earthly tempest is where you'll find tangible, corpulent eloquence". Lemme tella youse without d'New Joisey accent...

I actually saw Seventh-Heaven when we died: you couldn't GET!! any moe curly, party-hardy-endorphins, low-hanging-fruit of the Celestial Paradise, extravagantly-surplus-lush Upstairs (awww! baby kitties, too!!) when my o-so-beautifull, brilliant, bombastic girly passed-away due to those wry, sardonic satires...

"Those who are wise will shine as brightly as the expanse of the Heavens, and those who have instructed many in uprightousness as bright as stars for all eternity" -Daniel 12:3, NJB

Here's also what the prolific, exquisite GODy sed: 'the more you shall honor Me, the more I shall bless you' -the Infant Jesus of Prague.

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Anonymous said...

You'd feel very, very accomplished if
you'd REPENT n BELIEVE, dear. Why?
The question becomes an answer if
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is on the earth. I gotta wanna no way
of knowing •if• you're a Christian...
however, take a looky our alt.blog-
Orammathon to fly into YOUR home
in the Great Beyond, miss adorable:
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GBY.
Cya.