The Lists of My Lists Have Lists

I love lists.  To some they might seem restricting or binding. To me they are liberating. Once I've written something down on a piece of paper I no longer feel responsible for having to remember it. For all you youngsters out there who have embraced everything "techy", you are probably still trying to decipher that last sentence because it contained the words "written" and "paper".  Google it.

Don't get me wrong, technology is wonderful and I would probably not buy as many random items on my daily Target outings if I put more lists on my phone and less lists on pieces of paper in notebooks that I leave by the front door.  I also wouldn't have to make as many trips to Target but then the employees would start to worry if they hadn't seen me in a few days and then they might even feel the need to call the police and write a missing persons report and then my picture would be printed on milk cartons and when I eventually returned to Target we would all feel awkward.

For me there is just no sense of satisfaction in deleting an entry on my phone, but I become practically giddy when I can take my blue pen (I only use blue pens, but that's a post for another day) and strike through an item on one of my lists.  I liken it to what Napoleon must have felt like at the Battle of Austerlitz.  A little dramatic?  Perhaps.  But it was a big win for him so I think he was entitled to feel a little giddy.

I have a Monthly Menu list, I have a Weekly Grocery List, I have a Daily Household Chore List, I now have a Daily Work List, I have a New Team Member List, I have an Oils to Order This Month List, I have a Books I Want to Read List.  I know there are more lists but I can't find my Lists of Lists List.

I like to think that by having all these lists I'm working smarter not harder but I'm not so sure.  I do know that I really am much less productive when I don't have a list to refer to. It's like the list and I are at war and to be victorious I must cross off as many items as I can that day.  But if I don't get to all the items, it's o.k. because tomorrow I will just make another list of Items I Didn't Get to Yesterday.