Like to do. Have to do. Did do. Doobedoobedoo.

 OK, post #2 so I'm caught up.

Things I'd like to do:

get the new bed set up

organize my office

organize the rest of the house

set up the roomba

organize my projects and notes and tasks

vacuum

grocery shopping

laundry

cooking

break down boxes

games night

Things I have to do:

submit my assignment that's due today

do the readings for this week by tomorrow

prep for the readings and assignments for next week

get some kind of food into me (I guess optional today since it's Yom Kippur)

feed cats

Things I did today so far:

Abhisheik (a weekly ceremony I try to do with as much regularity as I can, though I missed last weeks)

Finished my assignment that's due today

These blog posts

My weekly review that I try to do every Monday

My morning exercise and meditation

Not horrible, but considering how long my lists are, I'm thinking about what to do if my todo lists simply get longer and longer, never getting shorter. At some point they become useless, simply making it take longer for me to find the things I'm actually going to do, amidst all the stuff I'm not going to do. I have a partial solution to this. I make a much smaller list, day to day. and week by week. Daily, I try and keep it to one thing I really try to get done, besides all the stuff I simply have to get done. Weekly, I take a small subsection of my longer list, the things I'd most like to get done, along with everything I have to get done, and write it up for faster reference. This works decently, if I'm keeping up with it. But on weeks like the last two, where I've been behind, it means things slip through the cracks.

Part of the problem is there are so many todo's and bits of information flying at me, that simply figuring out what to do with them all is a part time job. I need a better filter, between what's worth my time and what can just get tossed in a 'maybe later' box. Though maybe I just need a habit of doing a little bit every day. It doesn't have to take that long, if I know what to do with things. It's one of those "a place for everything and everything in its place" scenario's. If I just have to put stuff where I know it goes, it can happen fairly easily. If I have to think hard about each piece of info, there's no way I'll ever keep up with it.

Still fiddling with this system. It's not bad currently, but it's not all there yet.

Gonna get back to it!

- I Out