Use whatever name you want, but you need a list that you make, and keep making until you no longer want to be successful, then you can stop adding to the list. There are many variations on the same theme, they all add up to the same in the end. You need a list that will help you keep abreast of what you want to do for the rest of your life. That is why I call our version, a Living Life List .
The list will live with you as long as you are breathing, or you decide you do not want to be successful, which ever comes first.
Over the years, I've seen that what causes people a great deal of stress and anxiety is the fear of the unknown. Not knowing what is coming around the corner can be very frightening. Your Living Life List can do way with most of that "not knowing what will be coming around the corner".
You want your Living Life List to be a large, all encompassing in-box for everything that crosses your mind, that you want to do, starting from today. Nothing is too small or insignificant to not be included in your list. The mistake that most people make is to put just the big stuff on their list. The problem with this process is that you end up with a list that is half complete and when you begin to sort things out and start to assign time to the things on your list, you will always be running out of time.
The purpose of your Living Life List is to enable you to start to plan immediate, short and long range activities based on an accurate idea of exactly what you really want to do with the time you have available to you. This whole process becomes unreliable and inaccurate if you have more tasks than time.
We are always in this position, to have to parcel-out time to the tasks that we want to do versus the tasks that we need to do. Very few of us are lucky enough to have the time to do the things we want to do as well as the things we need to do. |