Is Your To-Do List Making Your Head Explode - Kathy Caprino

Is Your To-Do List Making Your Head Explode In honor of Twitter’s #Friday Follow tradition, I decided to “Friday Follow” myself all around the office and the house today, to observe what the heck I do all day as an entrepreneur, career coach, writer, and mom, and to see where the time goes.   So here’s what my TO DO list today looked like:   1)           Be a caring mom â€" Get kids up, ready, fed and off to school. DONE!   2)           Clean â€" the dishes and straighten house. DONE!   3)           Think Ahead and Prepare â€" Make sure there’s something for dinner.   DONE!   4)           Read â€" everything I can get my hands on, about working women, work-life balance, and careers.   DONE!   5)           Keep up-to-date â€" Check my Google alerts on women, careers, women’s event, and women’s books. DONE!   6)           Blog Write a post for three of my blogs.   DONE!   7)           Write Prepare an article for submission on women’s work-life balance. DONE!   8)           Promote â€" Reach out to interested folks about my upcoming audio and video series. DONE!   9)           Connect â€" Have lunch with my husband and have meaningful conversation (and fun). DONE!   10)   Produce â€" Take one step towards finishing an author clip for my site.   DONE!   11)   Be a caring child â€" Call my parents to check in. DONE!   12)   Biz Develop â€" Connect with two neat West Coast coaches and consultants to talk about collaborating.   DONE!   13) Confirm planning details of my seminar with executive women Monday. DONE!   14)   Edit â€" Work on editing an audio clip of a recent teleseminar to meet my deadline.   NOT QUITE DONE!   15)   Exercise â€" NOT DONE AT ALL!     16)   Email â€" Answer my skillions of emails and delete the spam and mindless crap and promotions. DONE!   17)   Mentor â€" Help out colleague who’s a bit down today, and offer support. DONE!   18)   Coach â€" Conduct my career coaching sessions with clients. DONE!   19)   Be a caring parent â€" Be home/available for my son’s return from school, talk and share, and give a snack â€" DONE!   20)   Administrate Pay bills (my favorite task â€" not!). DONE!   21)   Be Social Friday Follow and RT on Twitter, and add new stuff to FB and LinkedIn. DONE!   22)   Watch as my head exploded, then vent about it to my husband (just kidding! â€" not really)   23)   Transport and Shuttle Pick up my daughter from sports at school. DONE!   24)   Cook â€" Make dinner for family, and “hang” â€" DONE!   25)   Clean â€" up the mess â€" DONE!   26)   Post again â€" Write this piece. DONE!   27)   Collapse â€" into a heap. DONE!   28)   Rest and enjoy  an online episode of “GLEE.” NOT DONE, BUT WILL BE TONIGHT â€" gleefully! (After I un-heap myself).   OK!   That was my day, from 7:00 am to 6:25pm.   Not so bad for 11.5 hours.   So why do I still feel like I didn’t come close to completing what I wanted to??   Ah, the joys of perfectionism and overfunctioning!   What was your TO-DO List and how well did you accomplish it?   Happy Friday, my friends!