Dane, I found your list, the one that includes "look at list." Right here in my pocket along with a couple defunct grocery lists from 1985 and a to-do list written on the back of a Howard Johnson's receipt. Umm, do you want it back?

Liane, I've always made lists. I don't know where the habit came from. Remember the days of Franklin Planners? There were different sections in the planner for your various lists. Daily, weekly, important, not-so-important. Nowadays I vacillate between list compulsion and doing what's right in front of me. My friend Kate Guendling makes a to-list in the morning, but she's discovered something incredible. She puts the list away and refrains from looking at it all day, then when she pulls it out at the end of the day she discovers that everything on the list has gotten done! I love it! There's no judgment about the list itself, but, like you, she's not overwhelmed by the doing.