They're hungry little things, minds, aren't they?
I've noticed mine, asking for (demanding) more, recently.
It's been a spectacularly busy time, creating this home for the Daily Reminders, and I've had multiple project pieces to juggle. Lots of spinning plates. Dependencies. Contingencies. Managing scope creep. Quality assurance.
The sorts of things that used to leave me cold when my job title was actually ‘Project Manager’ but these days just make sense as part of doing what I was put on earth to do.
Go figure 🤷🏻♂️
Anyway, it means there have been lists. Lots of lists.
I have an app I use—Things, it's called—but when the chores really begin to rack up and there's more to do than I (feel like I) can handle, I'll revert to written lists.
Because if I'm going to go to the trouble of sourcing a suitable place to write it down, then thinking for long enough not to just write down any old shit that gets crumpled up and tossed in the bin, and then committing it to paper neatly, using my actual hand to grip an actual pen… then by jove, that task is going to get done!!
Even if it's days later… as it so often is.
And here's what I've noticed
For me, at least: To Do lists are the very pinnacle of outside-in thinking. Because it really, really, really looks like how I feel is tied in to the To Do list.