Lists

I’ve started a new habit.  Well it is not a habit yet but I am hoping it becomes one. I have been keeping lists for as long as I can remember but it is the putting them in a book rather than on random pieces of paper that is new.
I know I am at my best of a morning.  So I have decided to make a list first thing and to go for it.  I know I run out of steam, so it is no doubt best I do stuff while I know I have the energy and am into it.
I am actually quite pleased with the results.  It is a great feeling putting a line through stuff on the list.  I have got a book for such thigs.  I have been using bits of paper but I have decided to keep everything in a book.  I have column for my name and the date it was done.  When I have finished pages I put a line through it after transferring what remains to be done,
Maybe it seems over the top but it is the best way for me.  I know if I do not write something down I am more likely to forget it.  I know that is true and even in the short time I have been doing this I had not recorded someone’s last name and went looking for a record of it somewhere,  I found one I had written but it would really help if I understood my own writing.
Even in the short time I have been doing this I have remembered to write down two things I need to do.    One I could mot initially remember but have now.  I know if it is not written down it will come back to bite me.
I know the keeping of lists is not universal.  There are many who get by just fine without doing them.  I am not one of them. I was heartened to hear my doctor does them.  I did just think of another couple of things I agreed to do and wrote them down and have now done them.  It helped going through it to as something was there I had forgotten to do.  It is now done and life goes on.
Probably just as well I did that one.  It was ordering gas.  Last time it ran out at a really inconvenient time.  It gave me a chance too to see how much gas had gone up.  It was close to $100 extra for two large bottles.
But that is all by the by.  I am a list person.  I am from the List tribe.  My people are scattered far and wide.