In our race to the bottom of the list, we realize there is no bottom. While it sounds lovely in theory, once we set off on our to-do writing journey, we quickly discover a major problem. Nearly all of us have fallen victim to the to-do list at least once in our lives.Īfter all, the go-to piece of advice we’ve been told since grade school during feelings of overwhelm is, “Make a list and start crossing things off.” It’s a race to the bottom, except there is no bottom. He is consumed by the monster of his own creation. He turns, it envelopes him, then pulls him back into the deep dark depths of his office. Thankfully he is on the first floor so he essentially just steps into a large shrub scaring a small family of opossums.Īs he begins to sob hysterically, he hears the unraveling of the wretched to-do list drawing ever closer. Shortly into his battle, he makes a terrifying realization - the to-do list is like a regenerating monster right out of a terror flick - for each line he crosses off another three lines appear at the bottom.

He loads himself up with enough caffeine to fuel an entire city and begins his slow tedious descent to the bottom, crossing each line off the to-do list one at a time. Moments later, he finds himself in hand-to-hand combat with a to-do list so long and so vast it resembles the spiraling tentacles of a giant squid. Three bullets turn into ten - ten bullets turn into twenty. Man is feeling overwhelmed, begins compiling a to-do list.

I need to make a to do list