To do List

If you are like me you have a million and one things on a to do list. I have found that my to do list never gets completed before what is at the top gets added back to the bottom. If I make list that are based on time it makes it easier to get done.

Category of Time List:

1. Things to do today

• These are things that have to get done today. 
• Get dinner
• Wash dishes - assuming that you don't have enough to wait. 
• Mail payment

2. Things to do this week

• These are things that you don't have to do today just needs to get done this week
• Make out checks or online payment for bills due next week. You can even go as far as to set up a notice that will remind you when should be done online that will let you do it at say 8:45 pm that way it is not on your list but will get a reminder to complete. If it is something that will only take a few minutes (or even seconds) just make a reminder on the phone, computer, other device. 
• Give yourself time at least once a week, to read, relax, do nothing. schedule it into you week every week. If you make out a list of things you have for the week and put them in a certain day it makes a schedule of things to do even for each day. 

3. Things to do that has not time limit:

• These are things that you need to do sometime but don't have to be done today, tomorrow or even in the next week. But soon and things you don't want to forget. 
• This is basically a list of things you need to do but don't want to forget. Such as wash the car, wash the dog or clean out the fridge. 
• If you have things that need to be done on a certain date a month from now you can add to the list with a date so that you can add to the weekly then the daily list.

Yes what I am suggesting will take some time and practice but we make these list without even knowing it. We have sticky notes stuck to the computer, white boards, cork boards and things stuck to magnets. We have all these devices to make calls, check the internet and talk with each other, but we don't use them to their full potential. 

Record a message about things you need to do and remember to check the recorder

Make a few notes in an app for things to do. Yes, another to do list. 

After a while you will get the hang of these list. You will see that they get smaller each day. 

Remember to ask for help.

• You can ask your kids, husband, or even friends to help. They are in your corner and I am sure that you would help if they asked.

We all have a list it is a matter of how we get to it. If on your daily to do list there was twenty (20) things and you have just worked all day long that list is like another job that you don't get paid for and in most cases it is thankless. That is why these key list will help cut that list down and make it a checked off list.

You hear it is not what you have left of the list that you should think about it is what you got checked off that list. If you are not getting things done, ever, then you still have this list and it is not getting smaller. 

I have found a site on the web that will allow you to print different types of To Do List, you can find one there or create one yourself. 

To Do List

I hope this helps all you out there. I know it has started working for me.