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The Alternative To-Do List
A winning formula
There is no time. I have hollows under my eyes. Chores are endless. I should be creating. I should be exercising. I should be getting the affairs of state in order. I must do better and be more. Potential is knocking at the door. I need a personal assistant, a cleaner, a healer — and a holiday.
The daily grind.
Do you sometimes feel the same? Like running as fast as your little legs will carry you but getting nowhere?
Days disappear without any time for your self, without any fun. You make Daily Grind To-Do Lists to stay on track, to not fall behind. To maintain the base-line. Using up all your energy. Your mind is full of quotidians, not joy.
By the end of the week your legs are still hairy.
But you did: clean the fridge, mow the lawns, scraped the goo off the carpet where the cat spewed, and super glued the sole of your boot.
But you didn’t: watch a film, visit a friend, laugh, laze in the sun reading a book, get to the library to research your wonderful project or engage with your spiritual side.
You did nothing to nurture your beauty.
My priorities were out of whack, so I made an Alternative To-Do List. An alternative measurement of my success.
