{"id":7396,"date":"2016-03-25T23:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T03:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:50:36","slug":"list-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7396","title":{"rendered":"List oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some days, when the to-do list is long, I end up feeling that I’ve accomplished nothing.<\/p>\n

I didn’t finish that research project. I didn’t write that column for the local newspaper. I didn’t respond to three of my friends. I didn’t catch up on my blog posts. I didn’t mail those packages to my sisters. I didn’t get the Pakistan business plan wrapped up. I didn’t go to the gym or even stretch my shoulder.<\/p>\n

In the end I realized: The fault, dear Brutus, is\u00a0not<\/a> in\u00a0myself but in my list.<\/p>\n

My lists are just too much. I have too many projects, too much to keep track of. Just keeping my lists updated takes too much time – I have 15 of them in my GoTasks app. And then I feel guilty when I don’t do everything.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I DID do today:<\/p>\n

I got answers to the outstanding questions in the business plan from my counterpart in Pakistan, which required an exhausting 45-minute phone call.<\/p>\n

I had a long call with one very dear friend, which was made me feel better about a lot of small things that had been bothering me.<\/p>\n

I put in a solid hour and a half on the research project, which is why I had to shove aside my other friends, so that I could concentrate for long enough to make some progress.<\/p>\n

I spent two hours on my glass art, which relaxed me and was the one part of the day that felt like I accomplished something.
\n\"glass<\/p>\n

I took a nap, and that helped my shoulder.<\/p>\n

I finally got the insurance company to approve the estimates on repairs to the flooded basement, almost a month after the claim was made – which took a 20-minute call to the estimator, a second careful review of the documents, and a long message to the adjuster.<\/p>\n

I wrote Wednesday’s\u00a0blog post<\/a>, which was long, and I know what I’m writing for yesterday’s. Just can’t finish\u00a0it today.<\/p>\n

I made dinner, which included learning a new technique for cooking spicy garlic eggplant.<\/p>\n

I continued\u00a0reading a book about the brain, which gave me more ideas for angles\u00a0to write about it.<\/p>\n

And I watched a movie with my honey… Spending time with him is the highlight of any day.<\/p>\n

When I list it like that, the day doesn’t seem like such an underachievement.<\/p>\n

So maybe what I need is a “Did It” app where I can list my accomplishments, instead of a “To Do List” app with 15 different lists on it.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 2014, the year that I adopted the Go Tasks to-do list app. It’s not their fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some days, when the to-do list is long, I end up feeling that I’ve accomplished nothing. I didn’t finish that research project. I didn’t write that column for the local newspaper. I didn’t respond to three of my friends. I didn’t catch up on my blog posts. I didn’t mail those packages to my sisters. … read more List oppression<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[36,829,825,827,826,504,62,828,138],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-36","tag-accomplishments","tag-busy","tag-lists","tag-priorities","tag-recovery","tag-time","tag-to-do","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7406,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions\/7406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}