I Hate To-Do Lists

True. I hate. I work for a big corporate, but I hate to maintain a To-Do List. I’ve attended numerous workshops which speak about the importance of maintaining a To-Do list. Most of my managers used to do that, and expect their team members to follow that practice as well. I am not blaming any one who maintains and follows such a list. It’s a personal choice, and I respect that decision of yours to follow your heart. But I’ve seen people (mainly those motivation speakers) give over importance to the To-Do list.



I feel claustrophobic in maintaining a To-Do list. I feel suffocated.

I feel some one is making me do something at gunpoint.


I prefer in following my heart to do what I want to do and when I want to do. I do keep occasional reminders to make a phone call or to meet some one, but most of the time I remember those things even before my mobile reminds me. Sometimes I don’t do things even if I know it needs to be done, just because I don’t feel like doing it then. For the same reason I am not able to make regular blog posts. I have also seen people promising to make one post every day. Some follow, some doesn’t. A promise made to self or to others is to be abided. The easy way out? Don’t make promises – to self or others.

A To-Do list is a self promise.


Following a To-Do list makes life so very mechanical and predictable. At the end of the day, our life seem like a big excel sheet after an audit, with those funny coloured rows and columns. I was supposed to do this, have I done this? What made me not do it? When else am I planning to do it? Aaargh! Give me a break.

I didn’t do it, because I didn’t feel like doing it. Period. Why digging more?


There are people who fail terribly even after maintaining and following a To-Do list, and there are people who do the right thing at the right time mainly because they don’t maintain a To-Do list. I strive to be the latter one.

Let life be enigmatic.



Touchwood : I have never missed a train because I did not maintain a To-Do list.

SOS

Honestly, I thought I was the only visitor to my blog and refused to open it for long. Today morning I was beaming with joy that some good souls have taken time to comment on my posts. Thank you.

But however, I might need some help here please. I am not sure how do I reply to your comments. I just get a static link which reads “Post Comments”. But it is inactive. Could any of the seasoned bloggers please let me know how do I enable it. What an irony, I don’t know how my blog works. Sigh!. Well, after all I am an engineer by education, you know ;-)
 Can’t believe I am this much technically challenged.

Update : RGB helped me enable comment. Thank you RGB.

Problem in writing a blog is when you start typing a post about some topic, some other topics, ideas and descriptions rush in to your mind, and jumbles up the whole thinking.
Many a time you write in the whole thought, and when you finally read it it like “ Raju went to the fish market to watch Diljale and met Ajay Devgun in the next seat on the bus to Guwahati with Michael Jordan who was in the Deccan Chargers team, which swept the Andra Prdesh Elections” brr..

Sometimes I feel, the grestest challenge for novelists is not the creativity part, but the urge to resisit any side-thougts associated and to consciously avoid them. My admiration for novelists has grown lot further since I started to maintain this blog.