5 Important Things: A Life To-Do List

A To Do List for Daily Life

Hang this list on the fridge and see how often you accomplish them

• 1Do, try or learn something you didn't know before.
  
  Keep discovering, learning, and shaking yourself out of established patterns.
• 2Fulfill one obligation, promise, or thing you should do.
  
  No, you won't get to everything on the ordinary To Do list, but if you've crossed off one thing, you've made progress.
• 3Take one step to prepare for your own future.
  
  It could be anything from fixing some minor nuisance (e.g. flipping the bed mattress to sleep better) to exercise to a mammogram to investment planning. The idea is to do something to make your life a little better or help you get a little closer to some life goal. (The difference between step one and step 2 is that this is for YOU, not an obligation to some other person or entity -- e.g. billpaying.)
• 4Remember something or someone that matters to you.
  
  You don't necessarily need to ACT on that memory, althhough it might be great to call an old friend, check on an elderly relative, visit an old haunt, or look up what the house you were born in looks like now. The point is to keep up with roots, or family, or your own past.
• 5Create something, or do something creative.
  
  Even if it's only dinner or singing in the shower.