The List

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Do you know that feeling of being so overwhelmed by all the things you need to do, that you have a hard time starting on any one of them? Or the sense that you really want to start a project that is important to you, and as you want it to work out perfect, you are waiting for the ‘right time’?

These are two of the most common reasons for having a hard time reaching our goals...
And the solution for either one of these, although for each in a different way, is to create a list.

As soon as you start listing all the things you need to do, you can stop remembering them. You can stop juggling them in your mind, telling yourself repeatedly that you really shouldn’t forget to do this, make that call, or send that email... Because now that it is written down, you have a piece of paper to fall back upon.
Also, reading the list of things you have written down on the piece of paper, you usually quickly discover that some of those items are more important than others ~ in other words, now that the list is written down, it becomes easier to prioritize again.
With your priorities becoming clear, you know what needs to be done first and the feeling of overwhelm fades...
And as you finish the tasks you wrote on the list, you get to what some will say is the best part of working with a list: you can scratch it off your list!

Creating a list for a project that you want to happen in its perfect timing works slightly differently, yet often just as effective. Now you may want to list all the steps you need to take to start, or even complete the project. The planning of it, what materials you may need for it, how you would like to see it being supported by others (And how you will tell those other people about it...) ~ all the way to what happens when the project is completed. And, maybe even more important, how you would feel about your project when you have done it, and have been successful at it!
And perhaps without even realizing it, in creating this list you have started your project...

Because the thing about ‘waiting for the right time’ is that there will always be things that are happening that may get in the way; that you want to do first; that seem more important...

Yet if this project really is important to you, then the time to do it is now! And a good way to start with it is to create the list.

What would you write down on your list of things to do, or steps to take?
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