Like many women I know, I LOVE lists. I love writing them, I love ticking tasks off of them. I love that they keep me organized and help me to focus. List-making is definitely one of the ways I simplify my life. I certainly have enough of them! In fact, here's a list of my lists:
- My "40 Before 40" list that spurred this blog and then the lists that sprang from THAT (tracking 40 beers, tracking 40 recipes, tracking 50 miles in races . . .)
- My gratitude journal
- A grocery list template on my laptop that I print, then circle what I need
- At work, I live and die by my task list in Outlook
- The list of all the books I read
- When the boy was an infant, I kept lists of all his feedings and the amounts (OK, so maybe I'm a little compulsive)
- My spiral-bound notebook in which I write to-do lists every weekend (I really look forward to sitting down with coffee on Saturday mornings and making these)
- At New Year's, I make a list that is more goals than resolutions; then, I keep a list throughout the year tracking my progress (e.g. a library visit every month)
- Finally, one of my favorite list exercises, that was suggested to me by my friend, Debbie V.: I have a journal in which I write about Ben on the 19th of every month. I track any milestones, funny things he's said, new experiences we've had, or anything else noteworthy. Since I'm not a scrapbooker, this journal has been wonderful for recording snapshots as he grows. I love looking back through it and hope that one day, he or his wife or his kids will enjoy it, as well.
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