Forgotten Lists

Perhaps you have scraps of paper floating within your purse with accomplishments to be tackled.

 

Or is your desk drawer hiding those lists in which you had the best of intentions on getting them done?

 

If a list is long gone by now, yet you come across it in search of something else, then it is best that the hidden to do list was never tackled.

 

I say that because if you have forgotten about it, then what you had put on that list did not hold much value or priority for you.

 

I have come across a list or two to my surprise and after reading it realized that what I had set out to do was not what I really needed to focus on at that time.

 

One time I found a list of goals that I had written inside of a small notebook that went unnoticed for several years. It brought me joy to reminisce with what I wanted to do in that season of life.

 

And then I decided to choose some of those goals and add them into my current running list, finding that these still were applicable for me.

 

If you find a to do list or a set of goals that you have allowed to be hidden, then as you read through it ask yourself why this list got lost in the first place.

 

Maybe it was just the act of writing out what you needed to do that helped you sleep better that night. Or that what you put on this list was not realistic for you to do.

 

Either way, find the priority in what you wrote to yourself and determine what things on this list actually do need your attention.

 

Is a task you always wanted to get done now at the forefront of your mind? Is a dream written years ago now revived? Or can things that were once important now come to their end and be allowed to be forgotten?

 

We all have lost to do lists somewhere. It is normal and human for us to find ourselves so unorganized. 

 

Let me encourage you today, however, to learn how to keep a to do list and/or goal list that will not be forgotten or hidden.