Calling All List Makers

Are you a List Maker? Do you write list upon list upon list?

And then make a list of all your lists?

I’m serious!

If you’re not a List Maker, you have no idea what I’m talking about.

If you are, maybe you can help a girl out.

I’m in a state of overwhelm today. It’s not a foreign state to me. It’s actually quite a familiar place I visit.

Just a bit scattered.

Should I blog, or paint?

What should I paint?

Which blog should I work on?

Maybe I should just clean.

What area should I clean?

Scattered.

So I thought – I’ll check my list.

Not that list. That list.

Where is that list?

I quit making lists on paper a few months ago. Ah yes, the digital age. Everything on the computer.

With paper back-ups, though.

I’ve had enough computer crashes in my time to know there’s nothing like good old-fashioned paper and manila folders.

But the majority of my lists are on the computer.

There’s One Note. I love this program because of all the tabs. And you can just start a topic anywhere on the page.

I start a lot of topics.

Then’s there’s good ol’ Microsoft Word. I’ve been using Word since my Mac days in the ‘80’s.

Love Word. Documents (papers) into Folders (files). Just like the real, unvirtual life.

But if you’re online very much you need to save all those wonderful sites. With Bookmarks. Or Favorites.

More files.

More lists.

I used to manage offices. People actually paid me to do this. With money. Real money.

Back then, I used one steno pad.

 

The doctor would tell me to do something. I’d write it down.

A patient would call, needing something, I’d write it down.

An insurance company would call, I’d write it down.

Line after line. All in one place. On one pad.

Simple, huh?

I’d put the date on the bottom of the page. Then I’d go thru each task, crossing it off, one by one.

When someone asked me, “Did so and so call?” I’d flip thru a few pages, find the call, find the date and I knew if and when the issue had been handled.

Simple.

This was, of course, before the internet. Before personal computers.

Before blogs.

So, in an effort to declutter my computer – and my mind – I’m organizing and deleting lists today.

Now then. . . where should I start?

Hmmm. I need a list.