{"id":1125,"date":"2008-10-04T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2008-10-04T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T10:52:12","slug":"are-you-a-to-do-list-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Are you a &#8216;to do list&#8217; person?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I confess that I&#8217;m an inveterate &#8211; possibly even compulsive &#8211;  &#8216;to do list&#8217; person. I think that it all started with my university studies when I kept lists to ensure that I completed all my projects on time and had a good revision timetable for exams.<br \/>\nThese days, I still do my daily &#8216;to do&#8217; list on paper and love ticking off accomplished tasks. Each daily list includes adding a posting to this blog. I reckon that it makes me efficient and ensures that I don&#8217;t miss deadlines.<br \/>\nHowever, in addition to the daily list on paper, I have another six electronic lists on my iPhone (things to buy, books to read and so on).<br \/>\nNow, my wife &#8211; she&#8217;s the exact opposite. The only lists she ever makes are shopping lists and she usually forgets them at home.<br \/>\nIn the colour supplement of today&#8217;s &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper, Oliver Burkeman devotes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2008\/oct\/04\/wellbeing.to.do.lists\">his column<\/a> to his list-keeping habit.<br \/>\nWhat kind of person are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess that I&#8217;m an inveterate &#8211; possibly even compulsive &#8211; &#8216;to do list&#8217; person. I think that it all started with my university studies when I kept lists to ensure that I completed all my projects on time and had a good revision timetable for exams. These days, I still do my daily &#8216;to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}