I know this is something that has never happened to you, but I am also sure you know people that suffer from this and people that this happen to them all the time. They begin the weekend with great plans, exited about it, full of hope and even wake up early. By Sunday night you feel miserable, you feel that you waste so much time and didn't accomplish anything.
This is the weekend of most of the productive people I know (including some of my weekends too) we over plan, assuming that everything will take less than what actually take, and feel like a failure because the big list continue big (maybe even bigger) on Sunday night.
The problem is that we aren’t honest with ourselves, or fair for that matter./ If you are honest with yourself, you did stuff, you accomplish stuff, what you didn't do was finish the list. The real question is how real was that list.
This weekend my wife and I made one of those list.
- Mown Lawn (Back and Front)
- Put Grass Seeds (Back and Front)
- Buy Stuff to Paint Baby Bath, Our Bedroom and Our Bathroom.
- Paint Baby Bath
- Paint Our Bedroom
- Paint Our BathRoom
- Go to the PetExpo
- Go to Church
Guess what, we only did 5 our of the list. For most people this was a failure, but guess what. We also play in the backyard with our baby and dogs, make BBQ outside in the grill, did groceries, clean the house, make nice dinner on sunday, sit to talk outside for a couple of hours, sleep late on Sunday and play in bed with the baby, told stories and read stories to the baby, walk around the block with the dogs.
Any of those items were in our list, and don't count them will make us feel as if we failed.
If you read this week discussion on Monkey Talks, if you have not click here, we were exactly discussing that, you are frustrated because you don't finish your lists, but you don't take in consideration all the stuff you did that wasn't on those lists.
I have learn that those lists need to have a priority, the list you saw In this post, the actual list look really like this:
WILL DO
- Mown Lawn (Back and Front)
- Buy Stuff to Paint Baby Bath, Our Bedroom and Our Bathroom.
- Go to the PetExpo
- Go to Church
COOL TO DO
- Put Seeds (Back and Front)
- Paint Baby Bath
- Paint Our Bedroom
- Paint Our BathRoom
Now let's re-evaluate. Out of the WILL DO: we accomplish the whole list. Out of the COOL TO DO we accomplish only one. That's the key for us, we make the list, but then pick the ones that we will do all in our power to accomplish, and make a second list with all the cool opportunities. If any of those opportunities happen we are trill and it's COOL, if any of them happen and we finish our WILL DO, guess what, we had an incredible and successful weekend. The trick, the will do is never more than three things (four if you put Go to Church in the list )
Do you have a WILL DO and a COOL TO DO for the weekend, or you set yourself to failure creating the classic no priority I HOPE A MIRACLE HAPPEN AND I CAN FINISH ALL THIS SO I DON'T FEEL I FAILED THIS WEEKEND LIST. I got rid of the latest and I hope never again use it. What about you?
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