I need a list for my list!

So I have too many things on my todo list. To tell you the truth I am not even looking at it because it is daunting. So instead I will do silly things like getting new puppies or deciding to take up creating an iPhone app. It is crazy to just distract myself from what needs to get done, but here I am downloading Yahtzee to do something else. I remember one of the jobs I got years ago I was hired part time to help support a guy who had too much work. So I show up, and he puts me on the first task which his boss had him hire me to do. I got it done quickly, so they asked if I would want to stay and do more. I liked the money, so I said sure. My co-worker hands me an eight-page list of all the things he wanted to get done. I picked out one I could do right then and started on it. I was only working three hours a day, but it seemed that every time I showed up this guy was in front of his computer where I left him, and nothing on the list had gotten done. This went on for a year until this guy decided he was done, and he resigned. They hired me to take his job, and on the first day I sat down with my new boss, and he had a request for me. He told me to throw away the previous guys list and start my own. I agreed especially since some of the stuff on the list was either silly or didn’t need to be done. Maybe I should do the same thing with my list. If I start over perhaps a lot of the thing I put on there are now unnecessary or a least so far behind that I can remove them and wait for them to come back around later.

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