Memory What A Conundrum

How is your memory treating you these days?

You wake up with a ton of great ideas to get important
tasks out of the way. Before breakfast is eaten, the whole
mood has changed and your memory of what you wanted
to accomplish is MIA.

I have seven long years of daily checklists on record, saved
to external drives by the year and each month therein.

Ask me why I religiously kept such records and I will give
you some mumbo-jumbo excuse for being so busy, having
expectations of my own vs the needs of daily contacts asking
for help.

Whatever would I do without my checklists to embarrass the
living hell out of my level of competence?

So What is a checklist supposed to do?

A checklist is the brain child of some idiot  who made you
feel better thinking it was an International job aid used to
reduce failure by compensating for potential limits of human
memory and attention spans.

When you review a few weeks of checklists, what you find is
an embarrassing picture of a ton of things you promised to
do for someone and never got close to accomplishing.

Men are to blame for the need of a checklist

If you ask me, and no one has so far, I firmly believe men
created the trap of the checklist.  Though they called it the
cutesy  ‘honey do list” out of wifey asking them if ‘honey,
can you please cut the grass?  The neighbors are giving me
funny looks every time they see me do the hip wade to the
back gardens.”

Imagine missing the football playoffs to satisfy some nosey
neighbor?

Despite seven lost years of teaching, preaching, trying  my
level best to convince fellow members they really do need a
checklist if they expect to accomplish the deeds that will
determine the results they seek.

When I look back on it now, it is self-evident why the men
never so much as wrote down one line.  “Honey Do”  kept
beating their poor hen-pecked brain to mush.

Maybe that is a tad unfair? What if they did write down  a
line or two?  What if these marketing geniuses wrote down
lines begun  something like …

Take the dog for a walk
Cut The Grass
Take out the garbage …

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