Goal List?

[troubleinohio]

How many of you make yourself a GOAL LIST for the day now? Anyone? I just started doing this recently and it sure helps me keep focused and stay busy a lot more. My list isnt just compiled of chores like a "to do " list, it also has random things on it too. Like my list for today goes something like this:
Do Dishes and Laundry
Give kids a bath when they get up
Try to motivate husband again today
Prepare Breakfast
Play with the kids
Take the Kids outdoors to play
Take the kids on a nature walk & teach them new things
Make hot cocoa when we come back in from nature walk (its cold again today now)
HUG my kids alot!
Make Lunch
Go to Grocery store and Post office
Do more laundry
Get Supper started
Watch a good TV show with Kids
Read them a bedtime storybook

Now Im sure I'll add more to this later, and also maybe not do them all or in any particular order but you get the gist. Was just curious if anyone else does this too and if it helps you or not (I know some people get too stressed out trying to follow a list like this and it does more harm than good.)

[oxygirl487]

i love u too sweetie

[taekwondo_fighter]

goal lists are an awesome idea...   if it isnt written, it isnt so..
great post

[dove3053]

Sounds like a plan. I think I will do that. My list won't be that long, but it's a start to try to get some structure back into my life.

Dove

[hopsing94]

ROFLMAO I love you

[oxygirl487]

so i can write "kick me" on it and stick it on your back.........

[oxygirl487]

i thought i was bad lol....now i know who's purse to steal if i ever become a theif  lol....if i could lift it......i carry everything from wet ones to bug spray....lmao.....i do like the list idea though i think i need to make one......great idea....

[hopsing94]

oohhh.... why is it sticky?

[troubleinohio]

oxygirl- omg you are so right about purses weighing a ton! Ever so often i go thruogh mine and put all the loose change aside and then later on roll them to take to the bank. I usually have between 60 and 150 bucks worth of change in there by the time I finally clean the purse out LOL. Maybe that is part of my bad back problems as well!! haha!  

[oxygirl487]

it is a note that is sticky                

[oxygirl487]

if i had a dime for everytime ive done that id be rich...sometimes i think whats the point of having a list if ur gonna lose it...i guess firdt thing on my to do list should be organize my purse  lol......my purse weighs about 20 pounds.....no wonder i have a bad back lol....

[toxictome]

i can relate to the groc. list...i have lists going at all time...to do's..., grocery... things to take care if....it DRIVES me crazy...and of curse, when you lose the groc. list..the one thing you forget to pick up is the one thing you needed the most!!!!

I'm really having problems w/ the right words coming out of my mouth..like the other day i asked my son to empty the microwave....he just stood there laughing at me and i said ,"what is so funny?' He told me wha ti said and i laughed and said ,"well you know what i meant...the dishwasher"  and i fin dtha tis happening alot!!!
It's kind of SCARING me!!!!  lol

[hopsing94]

whats a sticky note?

[troubleinohio]

LOL Mary I have a vision in my head of you now with yellow post-it notes stuck all over your entire house and even a few stuck in your hair and to your forehead, lmao!

I could never use post-it's- my lists are always way too long and complex for such a tiny piece of paper. I practically need a 4x8' foot art poster to do mine on LOL

here's another Q for you guys- do you ever lose your grocery list and then end up in a panic in the store trying to remember what was on your list?? or worse yet, you still have your list but your handwriting is so bad you cant read what you wrote and walk around looking like an idiot trying to figure it out?? i do that all the time LOL

[hope08]

i don't know if it is my short term memory or what, but i do SO much better with lists, and plans. i too am a slave to the post it notes....i have an actual planner that i have with me, but for some reason the post it notes seem to work better. maybe it is the bright yellow color!
my friend had just called me last night regarding some book oprah was talking about. it was about an action board, or something like that. similar to writing out affirmations and reading them outloud to yourself all the time....embedding it in your subconsciene for it to happen some day. i can't remember the name of the book though!!!

[Clamity2]

I'm one of those people that do alittle of each room then do paper work then laundry all at the same time. Maybe a list would help. Thanks

[LIZZIE LOU]

first think on my list is "read your list"...lolol

my adhd is so off the charts that i cannot survive without lists...i cannot function.  

i'm with you mary..."what WAS the question?"  hehe

[allaboutmary]

I have reminder sticky notes everywhere !   Then I forget to read the sticky notes.  I guess when there are so many you don't even notice them anymore. lol   What was the question.lolol

[Avalancheblanche]

That is such a great idea.  I have read that once you accomplish something on the list checking it off produces endorphines!  
My goal today is to make it thru the day of work without an anxiety attack! LOL

[avisg]

That is a great idea , I don't do the daily goals ,but I do long terms goals 6 months out 1 year out 5 years out .I really does help me focus on what I want to achieve in life .so good for you !!!!