Daily Post-Its

I've been using post-it notes to jot down tasks for the next day for a long time now, but they've never really worked how I'd like them to. I do some of the tasks, I look at the note and check the items I do, I check the note again and check the items I've checked to make sure I did those, occasionally I check an item I didn't do that I plan on doing right after I've checked it, sometimes I don't do the item I just checked, sometimes I have a post-it note lying around for one or two days that rather than motivating seems to make me procrastinate even more and do other things instead of doing what the post-it note says, sometimes in a spurt of efficiency I actually take care of all the tasks at hand, on rare occasions even on the day after I wrote down those tasks, but more often than not I eventually crumble up the partially completed to-do note and throw it in a bin, and write a new note for the next day. Often with at least one or two previously incomplete tasks on it, probably because it gives a notion of a fresh start.

And I'm all about fresh starts. New years. Birthdays. Level ups. And so on...

Today (or rather tonight, since this was a title on my post-it) I decided to start taking these notes a bit more seriously. I've decided to write one every night followed by a week day, and then achieve all those tasks on the following day. If need be, not do anything else until those tasks are complete! I'm going to treat this list of tasks like it was actual work, and I'd be fired if I didn't do it. No excuses. No stalling. Just get that shit done ASAP!

Of course this also means I'll have to jot down a manageable list of daily tasks, and not do like I usually do: jot down anything I'd like to achieve, no matter how fictional a figment of my reality it really is. My life is an imbalanced blend between unrealistic ambitions and stone-cold reality, so it shall be interesting to see if I can stick to the plan. I'll keep you post-it.