To Do lists

It seems I fit some kind of pattern.

Everyone who knows me - and many of their therapists - knows that I am the most disorganised, undisciplined wretch on God's green earth. I have a 159 things to do in my todo list; he oldest ("learn to drive") is 15 years in the todoing. Earlier today I managed to slam the "snooze" button on my alarm clock twelve times. I don't know where my mobile phone is. The last I saw of it was in a cafe in San Francisco - maybe two weeks ago? I should cancel it. Hold on, let me add that to the todo list. There. It is as good as done. [Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka: Life Hacks]

And, given that pattern, a timely hint that getting a Tivo won't make the TV more useful:

I ditched my TV and my cable and my beloved TiVo a couple months back (saving money, saving time), and one of the first things I noticed is that I lost a huge amount of unconscious anxiety that I'd been lugging around: every time I turned on my television, I'd be confronted with a "to-do" list from my TiVo, all the shows it had captured that I hadn't watched yet. [Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things]

Comments

[pam]

We have a magazine available here called "Real Simple". Ostensibly about how to simplify your life, pare down your posessions, get your "to do" list done, but really geared toward getting people to buy expensive feng shui-oriented furniture. You have to beware of other people's plans for your simplified lifestyle.