alvin90 said:I have close to 600 someday/maybe items accumulated over 3 years... It's like a black hole I don't want to face... I can't bear to delete them, what should I do? It is particularly a problem for some perfectionists and OCD people :sad:
alvin90 said:I have close to 600 someday/maybe items accumulated over 3 years... It's like a black hole I don't want to face... I can't bear to delete them, what should I do? It is particularly a problem for some perfectionists and OCD people :sad:
I find this forum very inspiring too and I write articles with my thoughts about the topics here: https://biznesbezstresu.pl/I just stumbled across this thread. I've been thinking a lot about the someday/maybe list a lot lately. In the interest of sharing various approaches to dealing with long someday lists, I wrote an article about it...
My tactic hasn't changed much from my earlier response but I did refine my external someday maybe lists a bit by splitting them out even finer so each one is easy to read quickly. Books To Read, which was huge, became Books To Read - Science Fiction, Books To Read - Mysteries, Books To Read - Travel, Books To Read Non-Fiction and so on. Since I try to only have one or 2 books I am currently reading in each category it makes it a lot easier to ignore the lists when I am not ready to start a new book in that category. Say I finish my latest SF novel. I can easily look at the SF list and pick one to start reading and ignore the books on the other lists. I also created a bucket list, which for me is the wild, blue sky items that are very nebulous and may never really get done. They are dreams that I am not yet committed to actually pursuing. Keeping them out of the rest of the lists with dreams and plans that I really do want to do someday works for me.I just stumbled across this thread. I've been thinking a lot about the someday/maybe list a lot lately. In the interest of sharing various approaches to dealing with long someday lists, I wrote an article about it:
I just stumbled across this thread. I've been thinking a lot about the someday/maybe list a lot lately. In the interest of sharing various approaches to dealing with long someday lists, I wrote an article about it:
In your article you suggest splitting SDMB into three lists Someday, Maybe and Soon. Splitting into Someday and Maybe I don't have a problem with but, in my opinion, the things you've put on your "Soon" list are clearly Projects.I just stumbled across this thread. I've been thinking a lot about the someday/maybe list a lot lately. In the interest of sharing various approaches to dealing with long someday lists, I wrote an article about it:
You could borrow money, or sell your pushbikeSo for example, let's just say you are out of pocket money to spend on music. Now you don't have to look at each item of your "buy a music album" sub-list, because no way it is going to happen.