Do you ever do this?

I have a file in my Outlook email program that I renamed some months ago from "To Do" to "Will you ever do this???"  I thought maybe if I goaded myself with a little humor I might actually act on one of the three things in it faster.

Nope.  Didn't work.  I thought about relabeling it "Will Never Do."  Because we all know that the minute we say "never" it always happens.

Meanwhile, having completed the sixth of six seminars last night, I was feeling a little free to look at a new horizon this morning and began naturally brainstorming about "what's next."  None of the new things on my list are in the "Will Never Do" folder.  For sure, most of them I will do.  Sooner.

So why the heck have I kept that Never Do folder, I ask myself?  What's funny is that I can tell you exactly what's in it because "should do" morphed into self-imposed guilt long before the folder renaming.  Obviously I can live without doing these things. Maybe one day I'll do them because it will make sense at that time.

Tonight, I'm hitting delete and running for a Gluhwein.  Fast.  Before I start trying to do something else. 

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[nice_cup_of_tea]

I call my list "someday maybe" after Dave Allen's "how to get things done" system. Still don't do them though :-)