If you’re anything like me, you have a TO DO list. Or two…or three…
To Do Lists are great for us busy women and creative people. Because we tend to (HAVE to) be all over the place. And we would be lost without those lists.
Those lists make sure our kids go to school with the right gear for the day. They make sure we show up at the right friends’ house for dinner on Saturday night. They make us dash in and out of the supermarket within the hour that the kids are at the gym.
And when they are done, we throw them in the bin.
What a shame!
Today I made a ‘Look at what I’ve done this week’ list because I needed to update my Oops (as in Overall Operations) Manager about the status quo.
And I was amazed. Because although the list of the remaining TO DOs was still long and overwhelming, the DONE list looked pretty awesome!
And it made me proud. And it made me want to celebrate.
Here is why a DONE list is important:
- it gives you a sense of Completion
- it shows you what you have already achieved
- it says that a little celebration is in order
- it indicates your next steps
- it makes a great list for future reference if you needed to organise a similar project
- it shows recognition for who has done what in a team
- it makes you happy
- it gives you energy to attack that To Do list
So off I go to celebrate a little and attack my next steps.