Routines

[daniegirl6224]

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Totally this!! This is why I completely depend on my daily to-do lists Can others relate?

 

[TBRS1]

When I actually have a day when I REALLY have more than one thing to do, I make a list.

If I don't, I'll only do one thing.

 

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Although I do perform better with routines I hate them and always long to break out of them. I like change and variety in my life. I relate very strongly to one aspect of what you're saying though - having my plans interrupted.

I'm a very highly organised person with an excellent memory. I don't write lists down, they just exist in my head, I don't even write phone numbers down, if they're in my lists I remember them. The more responsibilities that are thrown at me the more organised I become, where as if I have nothing to do I'll do nothing.

Usually within a few minutes of waking up I have my whole day ahead already mapped out, what I have to do and in what order. I'm very good at planning and can juggle priorities on the run very smoothly, adapting plans and schedules as I go. For the last years of working before I burnt out I was a Production Manager in a print shop and it was a job I was very good at.

Where I had a problem though was in late afternoons when I've already sorted in my head what I'll be doing for the evening. If the boss came out and asked me to work back late just 15 minutes before knock off I'd chuck a tantrum. If he'd told me earlier in the day I'd be fine with it but throwing something like that at me when I'd already decided I was going to be doing something different was upsetting. There was no question of me staying back and doing the work, I prided myself on my reliability and never let an employer down like that, but I most certainly wasn't happy about it.