The real beauty of the to-do list is using it to transcend the mundane. aves_af writes
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Getty Images Early on in a new job, I made the horrifying discovery that my Notes app and the to-do lists I kept there had unwittingly synced with my co-workers’ apps and their to-do lists. Among the findings: Someone was grocery shopping for lasagna and someone else was outlining a murder-mystery plot. What really struck me, though, was how different my lists were from my bosses’.
No matter the flavor of your to-dos, most of us make these lists incessantly, and yet research shows 41 percent of the tasks we include remain unfinished. So, uh, why bother? Well, for one, it settles the swirling detritus of our days. Outlining a plan can help decrease anxiety. Leigh Ware, who’s in graduate school for counseling, keeps a running list of sexual desires in a Google Doc. “It includes how I want to feel in a specific encounter, the emotional state, what I want to happen, what I might wear,” she says. She also has a to-do list of topics she wants to research, which veers into the horizontal.
Cataloguing can be a long- or short-term habit. In her newsletter Maybe Baby, writer Haley Nahman explained how, during a depressive period, she wrote down what she planned to do every morning and what she’d done every night because she “simply needed proof that things were happening.” When she started feeling better, she no longer required this prosaic pulse check. “There is no one aim, or one habit, to fix everything,” she wrote. “Nothing is fixed, and that’s the point.
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