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Years and years ago, I took to bullet journaling and promptly fell into the, uh, aesthetic side of it which looks cute but is more like the new scrapbooking fad. I was never great at it at in any way, and at some point realised that keeping it minimalist was the only way I'd ever be productive about it.

I was also horrendously bad at both planning and at keeping up with it. I'm notoriously easy to distract and a chronic procrastinator. I could go weeks without remembering my BJ; I could have lists with three items and never cross out a single one of them.

Until a week ago.

After yet another week of half-done daily tasks lists, I made a list of some twenty things to get done over the weekend - most of them practical stuff around the house. And somehow, I did nearly all of them. Except for one (1) task I postponed for practical reasons and the two work-related things I'd noted, I did every one of those twenty-one things.

And this week, I've done all my daily tasks, and some others on top of it.

I have absolutely no idea what suddenly changed, because it's not as if I've done anything different. I'm still not as good at it at work as I am at home - possibly owing to the fact that a lot of this are purely practical things with visible and/or tactile results, whereas the work stuff is mostly correcting student work and administrative stuff all happening on a monitor. Still, I've been getting better at my to-do list there too.

One thing that might explain this, is that my previous lists were notoriously prone to self-improvement things like "draw for fifteen minutes" or "practice clarinet" and "write on X fic". Those kind of tasks are absent here - except for reading 30 minutes in a novel for my book club, which I should be doing RN. That, and plan first class tomorrow.

All the self-improvement stuff, the learning and the practicing, might be something I should introduce slowly, or maybe do a weekly habit tracker for. Because right now, I'd like to keep this bar so low that I might in fact make a habit out of just getting my daily lists out of the way, because it sure feels great.