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I To Do Therefore I Am?

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Lucy in the Window

Per­sonal organ­isa­tional skills. I can not has. They left me some time ago.

Microsoft has released some research on the gender dif­fer­ences of To Do lists.

About 70% of people have a To Do list.

20% of males keep their To Do list in their head.

Mine is a com­bin­a­tion of email (whatever is still in there needs to be done) and my head (flex­ible rearrange­ment) and cal­en­dars (so I know where and when I should be)

If I spent my time man­aging my time I’d have no time to do stuff. And I’ve decided never to be so busy and stressed that I’ve got to have pages full of things to do. Been there, done that. Oth­ers are bet­ter equipped to deal with myri­ads of lists of things to do, del­eg­at­ing, meas­ur­ing and motiv­at­ing. I do, not to do.

Enjoy­ing life is not cross items off a list. Life is in the doing.

Written by Nick Hodge

January 15th, 2008 at 11:31 am