While cleaning my drawer, I stumbled upon my old work diaries📚 — some as old as 3 years — replete with my daily tasks right from prepping for an important meeting to following-up with a colleague for some data.
While the 2 minutes of the cursory read took me on a nostalgic ride, I noticed my habit of the daily writing of a to-do list🗒 has hardly changed over the past years.
To bullet the tasks, I still diligently follow the ‘star for every task and 2 stars for the priority tasks’ method. Moreover, I realized I have a strong affinity to scribble lines on the tasks done, and for some reason which I’m yet to figure, a simple ✔or a ✖ just doesn’t serve the purpose.😅 I observed this pattern in all my work diaries, including the current one.
No wonder💁♀️there goes an adage — old habits die hard!
Interestingly, the other day I happened to read an article that said scribbling📝 lines on completed tasks is therapeutic.
Writing this post got me thinking about how our to-do lists are much talked about, while we rarely pause to acknowledge our ‘done’ lists and celebrate our achievements at the end of the day.🏆🏅
So, how do you manage your to-do list?
