Amy Storch

I am a list-maker. I love lists. I love written lists, typed lists, apps and software programs dedicated to making bigger, better, longer lists. I am also the sort of list-maker who makes really, really detailed to-do lists, just so I may have the pleasure of crossing off the maximum number of tasks each day. Sometimes I will go back and ADD completed tasks that I forgot to put on the list in the first place, just so I can immediately cross them out. It’s so satisfying, you guys. Like having an itch in the center of your back and somebody offers to scratch it and yes no a little higher to the left and…aaaaaaahhhhh. Yeah. I sure do like a good to-do list. My biggest hurdle in list-making, sometimes, is that I am “lazy.” I do not necessarily have “big goals” for the day. I am not particularly “ambitious” or “go-getting.” I “blog for a living in my pajamas.” So I have been forced to get more and more creative with my to-do list in order to maximize my crossed-off item tally and personal sense of accomplishment. So I am proud to present a super-organized painfully over-detailed to-do list, custom designed with Today’s Modern Underachiever in mind. Luckily, putting it in Microsoft Word with pretty shaded tables and categories helps a lot too. You can print this sucker out and tack it to a bulletin board and it looks REAL and PROFESSIONAL, like it took HOURS to create. It didn’t, but even if it did, you could still type “Design custom to-do list template” on it and then CROSS IT OUT. Mmm. Yeah. Take that, the chaos that is my list. I am kicking butt today. I think I shall brew a second pot of coffee just so I can ride this insane burst productivity. Oooh! There’s a spot for that on the list? (See how it works? Instant sense of pride and accomplishment, in handy-dandy table form.)

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