We are leaving in less than 12 hours and I haven’t packed. So what to do? Blog entry, of course.

I woke up at 5:15 AM wondering if the coffee machine had done it’s magic yet. And then “To Do” list items started scrolling across my mind so I got up and started writing them down. Dave woke up and started chiming in with his items. Cammy heard the activity and came in for a good back-scratching session. Nearly two hours later and I’ve gotten a lot done. No where near making a dent in that list, ‘though.

List making is my salvation and my downfall. It’s a fine line. If I overlist, I freak myself out and accomplish nothing. If I don’t list, I forget stuff or get distracted by non-essentials (like reading that blog of other people’s lists).

So to keep things under control, I find myself breaking things out into separate lists. Right now I have before me the packing list, the personal stuff to do list, and the business stuff to do list. Sometimes I start a list with something I’ve already done just so I can immediately cross something off the list. A good one to start with today would be “Wake up and start a list”.