The Benefits of Making Lists to Get Organized
Lists should be part of your daily and weekly planning
My husband is a list maker. I am a planner. What is the difference?
Planning forces you to consider not only what you need to do but why and how. It is less immediate, meaning that the focus is not on what must be done today, but on future goals that could be weeks, months, or years into the future.
To me, lists have always felt like endless duties I need to tackle and check off. And the only reward for finishing the list is that I get to create a new list of things that must be done the next day. When scanning a list, I usually feel overwhelmed. Planning, on the other hand, allows me to dream and imagine a better future and to create projects and activities to make those dreams a reality.
However, though I’m not a fan of lists and tend to resist them, I have realized that I do need lists, because they are useful within the planning system. Those projects and activities that I love to create, eventually, must be broken down into actionable steps that will most likely require me to make a list.
