#190 — Accounting For My Time

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If they made a movie about my professional life, it would be called Kevin Cummings and the ‘To-Do’ List of Doom.

Each workday I start with a nice clean sheet of note paper which I sully with an ugly list of tasks I have to accomplish. This would be tolerable if I could just finish each item and cross it off. Except it doesn’t work that way; every task I accomplish gives rise to two more. And those give rise to two more. And so on until the list is long enough to publish in a handsome, leather-bound multi-volume set.

On second thought, maybe my life-movie would be Hercules vs. the Hydra. Or perhaps just Sisyphus.

If things don’t improve, my legacy to my children will be a lifetime of indentured servitude while they finish the tasks I never had time to get to. It’s not that I don’t try. I’ve purchased dozens of books on time management and fully intend to read them … as soon as I can find the time. (Full Text)

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Notes:

• Thanks to Robert for his kind words on It’s A Date and a link off to his blog which is chock full o’ interesting Haiku.  http://roberttgasperson.com/articleblog/
• Thanks to Shane (http://bdgjm.blogspot.com/) and Stephen for their constant support and kind words…I’ll have to see if my wife wants to add any commentary on the essay about dating.
• Finally, thanks to Twitter friend Giznew (http://www.twitter.com/giznew), Doug Franklin, Robert Schuster and my Mom (all on Facebook)  for sharing a laugh with me over the inflated price of my book on Amazon.com.