How I love a good TO DO list

I have recently come out of hiding and returned to the world of the living.  There are a variety of reasons for both my retreat and my re-emergence, mostly related to not wanting to deal with my thesis and realising that I must in fact deal with it.  For the past month or so I have managed to successfully avoid nearly all productive (required-to-graduate) work – but deadlines are now looming (practically crushing me really) – so I have brought back my tried and true tool for ending procrastination – my TO DO list.

I know it seems silly – but lists have some secret power over me, which make me get things done.  In my previous life as a project manager, the walls of my office were covered with large white sheets of paper; each bullet-ed item neatly checked (and crossed off).  When I was in the last few months of my MBA, the lists came back and sure enough chapters were worked on, submitted, revised, and completed.  I don’t know why it has taken me so long to bring the TO DO list back, but it is needed now more than ever.  Here is today’s TO DO list:

• Prepare for this week’s tutorials (done)
• Complete 3 slides for departmental presentation (done)
• Return library books (done)
• Revise 1 section of Methodology chapter (done)
• Write blog (done)