My Lists - Part 2

I love my daily calendar of The Little World of Liz Climo. This comic appeared right after I wrote "My Lists" post.

For the sloth "hang from a tree branch" is the best. And then "relax" completes the picture.

I totally agree that I need to and, in fact, it's okay to include "relax" on my to-do lists for personal well-being. Enjoy!

My Lists

I'm a list person. I have scratch paper all over our house so I can write lists when the ideas come to me. Some of the lists are what I need to do around the house. Some are errands I need to do out and about town. I have shopping lists and study lists. These are "to-do" lists. I get a lot done because of my lists. (And of course I get to cross items off when I've accomplished them.)

Last Wednesday evening I made a list of what I wanted to accomplish at Unity the next day. "renewal member info update" was about adding all the contact information from our membership contact cards onto our Excel spreadsheet so we can create a merge document for each Unity Spiritual Center voting member to approve and update as necessary. (I got that done.)

Another to-do list was about my upcoming trip to Illinois to see my mom and the rest of my Illinois family. "email Wes" was to remind me to ask my brother-in-law Wes if he could pick me up at the airport and to send him my flight information. (Driving from O’Hare Airport to my mom’s house with Wes is always a treat - we get to spend 40 minutes or so one on one catching up.)

I've been putting "write" on my lists for a long time now - months or maybe even years. But I haven't been doing much writing.

Also for quite awhile I have been seeking guidance for what's next for me. I have posted about that a couple times. I've been waiting patiently for the guidance to appear, believing, actually knowing, that it will come at the right time and place.

An answer came to me last Thursday morning: I need to be more specific about what I mean by "write" when I put it on my list. As I thought about that I realized that I’ve read many times about how to accomplish a goal: break it down into manageable pieces. Do one at a time and the next thing you know the project is done. So one of my most recent lists says: "write for 20-30 minutes about the next five letters from my dad." Now that's specific, it commits me to a finite amount of time and will be easy to accomplish.

In other words: I can do that.

~ JEAN