Making long lists is so anal. And it reminds me of high school. Yep. Didn’t do too well with that. They expelled me. That was the nicest thing the City of New York School Department ever did for me. It freed me up to go down to Greenwich Village and become a certified, registered, and unrepentant Folkie. Down there, we made it clear that long lists were the Devil’s work and a sign you were working for the Establishment. No way!
FLASH Alert!!!!! I did spend some years working for the Feds. But I ran Folklife programs – I worked with musicians and craftspeople. Not your typical take a number, sit on the couch until you are called civil service job. I was always recognizable as a rebel, even if I wore my hair short, wore a three-piece suit, and Oxford shoes. Driving into the parking lot in the morning, I was the jive ass dude rocking away to George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. ” Come on! Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip, And come on up to the Mothership.” The Jury was not out on me.
Nope, not your average Civil servant. Ask me to make lists, and you’d get maybe three items. You need to concentrate on the first three, and then work your way down. But a list too long and you’d confuse priorities on a to-do list. On my achievements list, you’d get too puffed up on yourself. So keep it simple;
Know your priorities, keep focused. And don’t get distracted.
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I love a list. Moreso, I love checking items off the list. And then balling up that list and swish! All net into the trash it goes. 🏀
You bet! Trashing is the best part of lists!
This is a great response! You did much better than I did. I saw the prompt and immediately started humming to a Julie Andrews song. Things quickly went downhill from there, lol! Hugs
But you went downhill in an interesting way!
I tried making a list of the lists I’ve made but I got nowhere.
Well, “sometimes going nowhere is where you need to be”- an old Folkie bit of wisdom from the Boston- Cambridge “scene”.
I must admitI used to plan projects, so had lists with hundreds of items on them (but we used to call then Gannt charts andadd an extra few zeros to the bill!) But I think the trick is to know when to plan and when to stop planning, knuckle down and just get on with the task!
I love lists. I have several on my desk right now. For some people, I am told that lists cause anxiety, but for me they help me remember stuff, which decreases anxiety. Also, as already mentioned, it’s a high to cross things off the list!
I used to use them on the job all the time to organize things, but I only work part-time now, so not so much. It’s liberating.