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A customer at the bar was flipping through his journal and said 'it's just a list of things I didn't do'
He was showing a friend his weekly log, pointing at all the tasks he'd moved forward. I was wiping down the counter and overheard him. It made me look at my own journal differently, at all the open circles I see as fails. I've started putting a small check next to migrated tasks now, to mark the effort. Does anyone else have a way to feel better about moving things forward?
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pat_hart13d ago
It's the same reason I stopped crossing things off a grocery list. Seeing all those lines just made me feel like I'd bought too much. A small check is a better way to mark that you at least looked at the problem.
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My old boss had a whiteboard in his office with three columns: Do, Doing, Done. He'd move tasks to Doing for weeks, then just erase them. Said the act of moving it was the real work, not the checkmark. Always stuck with me.
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