Let's Put Away Them Procrastination Blues

[kerravonsen]

First, a drive-by rec for this podcast about procrastination. It's a proper scientific thing, interview with a psychologist who studies procrastination. Good stuff.

Second, I feel all organise-y today, probably because I woke up early, so I'm having a to-do-list menu to record stuff I may do and have done.

• write todo list
• domestic
  • dishes
    • empty dishwasher
    • load dishwasher
    • start the dishwasher and put timer on for 50 minutes
    • when the load is done, open the door to speed drying
    • empty dishwasher
• Unclutter/Craft Supplies
  • write a parser to parse the product pages of That Bead Shop
    • catalogue recent purchases from That Bead Shop
    • unpack my new bead hanks and put them into (temporary?) plastic boxes
  • catalogue recent Ebay purchases
  • catalogue micro-fine glitter and double-sided tape from, I think, Giraffe Craft Supplies.
  • catalogue non-ring purchases from The Ring Lord
  • catalogue LAST YEAR's purchases from Aussiemaille
  • catalogue yesterday's purchases from Riot
  • catalogue purchases from $2 Store
• Inventory/Etsy listings
  • Compare Marmalead and EtsyRank audits on listings and improve listings:
    • necklaces
• Art/Craft
  • work on diagonal knitted scarf (while listening to the above podcast)
  • make a trial Kumihimo braid with my new bead hanks
• Outings
  • Physio appointment
• Videos
  • Savour some Doctor Who
• Social Media
  • Catch up with Etsy group
  • Catch up with R-S-P group
  • Catch up with O-C-N group
  • Catch up with S-A group
  • Catch up with DW/LJ
  • Catch up with YouTube subscriptions
  • check Twitter

Comments

[jhall1]

I'm afraid I'm going to put off watching that podcast. :)

That's a very thorough to-do list. Is your memory especially bad? If it was me, I think I'd just put "do dishes" and leave it at that.

[kerravonsen]

Is your memory especially bad? If it was me, I think I'd just put "do dishes" and leave it at that.

It's got nothing to do with my memory. My memory is fantastic.
The point is to make it easier to do by breaking it down into discrete tasks rather than one massive task, and to reward myself by being able to cross things off. I hate doing the dishes. I don't need a list to tell me how to do the dishes! There is no requirement in dishes-doing that says the dishwasher must be loaded as soon as it is emptied. They are two distinct tasks. So I list them as two distinct tasks.