I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.
If I feel like I am about to explode, I take a minute to evaluate what it is that I have on my plate, make a to-do list, and start tackling what I need to do, one step at a time.
I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.
If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.
This is what I want you all to do. I want you to open a new document and type up a list of three problems in your life. Not the universe's life - your own. Underneath, type the solutions. " "If we know the solutions," said Belle, "they're not problems. " "Exactly," said Denny. "You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.
I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices.
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
Everyone knows that due process means judicial process, and when John Brennan brings him a list of people to be killed this particular week, that's not due process. That's certainly not judicial process. So there's the fifth amendment. Not even George Bush claimed the right to kill American citizens without due process.
Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
Make a written list of everything you love.
The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.
I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.
We like lists because we don't want to die.
I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.
I'm obsessed with making lists.
I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.
I can sit and list off all the things that are being worked on and all the things that are on the table, but that will take away all the surprises that are going to come. There are so many explosive, exciting things that are happening. Everybody that is in my life and in my world now has something to do with what I do.
I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.
I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.