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| 2024-02-28 | Everything is a checklist | The author ruminates on routine, mental health and productibity. |
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Everything, everything, can be a checklist.
- ✓ Wake up at 4:15am
- ✓ Start exercising by 4:30am
- ✓ Throw TV or movie on in the background
- ✓ Aim for 1600+ calories, be satisfied with anything over 800
- ✓ Finish exercising by 6:35am
- ✓ Check off what was watched on Trackt
- ✓ AirPods in, start an audiobook or text to speech in Readwise Reader1
- ✓ Check Todoist
- ✓ Make coffee
- ✓ Feed all 4 dogs
- ✓ Feed the guinea pig
- ✓ Do dishes
- ✓ Start laundry
- ✓ Take medication
- ✓ Drop the kiddo off at school
- ✓ Check my calendar
- ✓ Start music
- ✓ Start work
- ✓ Meetings
- ✓ Code reviews
- ✓ Tickets in, tickets out
- ✓ Pick the kiddo up from school
- ✓ Finish work
- ✓ Hang out with the family2
Check, check, check, clear the queue, close the rings, get to zero.
I know this looks neurotic, it is neurotic because I'm neurotic. I always have been, or at least as long as I can remember.
I've got anxiety and this helps me cope with it — other things do too, but routine is important and, when you get right down it it, that routine is a series of boxes that get checked.3
Check, check, check, clear the queue, close the rings, get to zero.
"I'm on a good mixture, I don't wanna to waste it"
- The National, City Middle
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At 2x, sorry Keenan. ↩︎
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This is the BEST part. ↩︎
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This also explains a why I have ~37,000 completed tasks in Todoist. ↩︎