Weenie's Philosophy of "To Do's"

So this is my philosophy on “To Do” Lists…

..the motivation and success of to do lists is all in seeing things accomplished...so that's why even on an "off" day it good to make a short list of simple tasks, but in having completed them you still feel productive and more eager to tackle the next day's list…

This is what I was explaining to Bobbi the other day.

You can also blame her for the lameness of this blog. But it was her who requested that I write another (and she is the reason that writing this made my Wednesday To Do List), and since she’s one of my few loyal readers I thought it best to keep her happy.

To further establish my ‘dorkiness’ let me further explain my obsession with lists. I keep a binder, yes an ENTIRE binder, solely for this purpose. In it I have dividers. One is for my general, daily “to do’s”, another is for other lists that I keep (this includes my book list, goal lists – there are several to include different time frames, shopping lists, Christmas gift and cards lists for the past years and an ideas list for the upcoming holiday season, then there is a section for random notes pertaining to any of this or for information that is required for a task on my daily to do list, a miscellaneous section for anything that doesn’t fit elsewhere, and the final section is labeled “writings” in which I keep some of my course work (that I really should get working on again, that’s on my goal list for 2006) and recreation pieces that I’ve written.

Here I must take a potty break, not for me, but rather for Asili. I’ve even remembered to save this incase my computer freezes while I myself am outside in the freezing cold.

Back. It’s actually, surprisingly, a really nice night out.

And I’m not so completely anal that I am upset if something on my list doesn’t get done. It can always be shifted to the next day’s list. I function like this at work as well. My entire agenda book if full of “To Do’s”…of course at work it’s more important since I have so many events and things on the go simultaneously (which is one of the things I love about the job!). Currently I am working on; March Break, Spring Home Show, Easter, Police Week, Job Fair, the AGM and yes even Christmas 2006!

Anyways, I am sure you will agree that I’ve written more than enough on this.

Tomorrow evening I am going to the Chamber Business Awards. One of the stores in the mall that I nominated for an award actually won…so woo hoo! I spent half my evening today figuring out what shirt to wear with my suit (yes this was on my list of to do’s)…my biggest problem was that I wanted to wear one of my already ironed shirts. Anyways mission accomplished, I figured something out.

Over the weekend I’ll take some new pictures of Asili and post them. She’s now 3 months old. The previous photo is from when she was just 5 weeks old. She’s starting to lose her puppy look. She can now sit on command and play fetch. Those are the Asili highlights.

Anyways, off to scratch “write blog” from my Wednesday list! :)