Last week, I made myself a to-do list. It was a truly magnificent to-do list, which encompassed all of the things which I need to accomplish in all of the different parts of my life. I often make myself to-do lists, but they tend to focus on one specific area only. This one included work and holidays and my private life… literally, everything! I was terribly proud of it, confident that I had achieved an utterly completed list, which when totally ticked off would bring me 100% up to date with everything, and I had a nice relaxing weekend, happily secure in the knowledge that there was no need to worry, everything I needed to do the following week was safely laid down in black and white.

I got to work on Monday morning, opened by bag to extract my list… and, after a prolonged period of frenzied searching, discovered that I had accidentally put it in the shredding bin (more…)