To Do Lists!

          Hey everyone!
For this week's post, I wanted to write about to do lists. I could never make to do lists in the past because I thought that I would remember doing everything I needed to do in a certain time period, but one of my new year's resolutions was to start writing to do lists, just to see if it actually works for me. I've been trying to keep up with the to do lists I've been writing myself these past few weeks, and I've got to say, it has been working. There are a few times when I couldn't finish everything on my list, but for the most part, I managed to get most of my things done!

This picture here is an example of what I do to write to do lists. I draw a little box next to each task I have to finish so that when I'm done of one them, I simply check off the box, and to have the satisfaction that I completed something. This to do list was for today, I needed to finish everything by the end of the weekend. I didn't remember one of the things I had to finish until later during the day, so I drew an arrow in between two other things I needed to complete, to show how important that task was. Doing these kinds of to do lists for me helped me get my work done faster, because it made me realize how much stuff I needed to get done in just two days. I also got to clearly prioritize the things I needed to do, or the things that would take longer to finish. I got everything that was on the list done in a day!
The little notepad I'm using is from Michael's. Every time I finish a list, I'll rip off the paper from the pad and it'll make me feel so happy that I'm done with it! It might be a waste of paper, especially if I'm doing these kinds of to do lists every week, so I'm figuring out what else I could use that won't be wasteful. I have a white  board and a small chalk board in my room, so I might use that instead of the notepad... We'll see!
I recommend doing to do lists because I think it really helps you get more organized. You get to prioritize the things you need to finish first, you can know how much you actually need to do in a certain time period, you know how hard and fast you need to work on each task you wrote down, and you get the pleasure of checking each task off your list at the end! How fun and effective is that?! =)

Anyways, I hope you found this post helpful! You should really give writing to do lists a try because I think it will help you in some way. So, until next time!

Keep Smiling,
M-L