Like - Keeping A List

“What am I supposed to be doing right now?” “What was that idea I had earlier?” “What was that thing I needed for dinner?” These are the sorts of questions that lists help to prevent you from asking. Keeping a list is by no means a 100% guarantee that you will do everything you’re supposed to, but they certainly help. Does this mean you don’t have a perfect photographic memory? Yes, because you probably don’t. There’s too much going on in the day-to-day of most people’s lives to expect anyone to remember every dumb little detail. Luckily, lists don’t forget. Once you finish what’s on your list you get to cross that thing off, which is always satisfying. Now, despite my fondness for lists, I’m not all that great at keeping them. I get into the swing of things before getting bored or simply forgetting. One such list I want to do a better job keeping up on is my “Things I Like And Don’t Like” list. I keep it in a Google doc. It’s currently 12 pages long and has 512 entries, which is now less than half of the total number posts I’ve written. It’s been a good resource and I still have entries I can pull from it, but I haven’t been as good at jotting my thoughts down as I once was. Time to hop back on the list making wagon.