Devir Kahan

I just had a thought.

You see, there’s something that I have to do today, and in fact every day this week. The details of which are unimportant, but the fact of that matter is that it’s not something that I really enjoy doing, and thus there is not much motivation for me to actually do it. And thus, knowing myself fairly well, I knew that it was not going to get done unless I put it in my ToDo list¹.

I knew without a doubt, that if I put it down in my ToDo list, it would get done in the time frame that I specified.

Now that’s saying something.

Some things may take longer, but if I put something in my ToDo list it will get done eventually.

I’m not entirely sure why this is, but I think that when it comes down to it, it’s just my modus operandi. It’s just how I am. I only put things down that I really do want to get done. If someone tells me to do something that I don’t want to, or at least don’t believe - however deep down - that it needs to get done, it’s not getting on that list. But once something does, you can bet your bottom dollar it’ll get checked off. And boy do I like checking things off.

I write this all to say, perhaps, that if there is one thing that you should be OCD about, it’s your ToDo list. I’m rather glad that I have a relationship with my ToDo list in which I know that if something is added to it, I’ll have it done. I think everyone should be able to say that about their ToDo list. The difficult part is figuring out how to achieve that.

If it were me, I’d just add it to my ToDo list.