Forget About It...Until Later

I used to be the kind of person who would not go to sleep until everything on my to do list got done. Then I realized that's just silly.

To do lists, you see, have this crazy knack for growing when we turn our backs. They even grow while we're glancing at them. Sly little buggers.

I've been losing sight of how silly it is to try to do everything on the list each day. In fact, I had a nice, long list for this weekend that nearly nothing got done on. I had to admit that my body needed the sleep more than things needed to get moved around in my classroom.

I have to admit that a certain amount of peace came over me as I let myself forget about most of the things on the list aside from the "must do" items like lesson planning. But moving desks around? Yeah, sounds like a good thing to do Friday afternoon.

Take a look at your own to do list. What can you drop off of your list today?

~"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency." [-Natalie Goldberg]~