My to-do list is no longer my slave driver

My days aren’t ruled by to-do lists or plans. Just because I put ‘post on LinkedIn’ on my to-do list, doesn’t mean I’ll do it this week. Or at all.

I don’t even look at things to do in a day. I take it moment by moment, regardless of what day it is. Sure, if there’s an appointment on my schedule, I keep it. I’ve yet to leave a client hanging because I’d rather watch the new episode of a new series. 

But other than that? I do what the cliché calls ‘going with the flow.’ (Shout out to the ancient Taoists.)

Sometimes that looks like reading a thriller on a Monday afternoon. 

Sometimes, it looks like it did on a recent Saturday.

I:

✨ Rewrote my homepage, 

✨ And the opt-in page for my newsletter, 

✨ And the confirmation email; 

✨ Created a new 404 page; 

✨ Fixed an issue with a broken link that showed up in weird places; 

✨ Came up with a list of ideas for my newsletter; 

✨ Wrote 7 new blogs (not counting this one);

✨And took 73.452 steps.  (Rounded upwards a bit.)

Years ago, I’d have called this a ‘productive day’. Look at me spending my time wisely, on a weekend no less!

Now, I don’t call it anything. It’s just the way the day went. The things I did were just … the things I did. 

Productive, unproductive … since plans and thoughts of things I really should do no longer rule my life, measuring and tracking what I do has left the building, too.

There’s still a to-do list. But it’s just a collection of reminders, no longer the slave-driver of my existence.