I like to play at writing more than I like to actually do it. Same goes for coding, praying, and just about anything that requires hard work. I recently realized this and changed the homepage of my browser. (It used to point to my newsreader, where I download the world into bite-sized chunks and read about what other people are doing.)
It takes others less time, I think, to realize that there’s a very short window to accomplish anything in life, and a lot of mundane steps to get there. Sometimes it takes me a while to figure stuff like that out.
So I changed my homepage to my to-do list, instead.
I so get this. I’ve recently discovered similar things about myself. I’m about 60% through 3 different site re-designs, as well as a couple of longer posts. While I love blogging, I have no definite plans to finish any of these projects.
Its both freeing and encumbering to realize that I’m an obstacle to my goals. Freeing because now I know there’s something tangible that I can do about it (get busy), and taxing because it requires hammering through the mundane steps.
I’m not giving up.
where do you keep your to-do list, oh great one?
:: blushes ::
It’s here: http://www.30boxes.com/todos. You can tag your tasks and filter them. I set up a tag called “thisweek” with things I want to get done really soon. That pops up every time I visit the site.
More info about the todo feature in 30 Boxes “is here”:http://30boxes.com/blog/index.php/2006/05/04/30-boxes-adds-taggable-to-do-lists-for-gtd/. 30B really is quite good.