this morning opened my 'to do list'. in the last days in a quite chaotic but still productive way i've been doing many things. small things, administrative things, cleaning things... so i thought it was time to tick them off. but to my unpleasant surprise all the tasks i did were not in my 'to do list'! i immediately started to put the things i finished in the list and ticking them off but that felt quite embarrassing.
so the big question which immediately appeared: do things you did still count if they are not in your 'to do list'?
in general my 'to do list' works. it's a mind-map, so there's no order. it's just not to forget what i have to do. no planning involved. every now and then i try to make an order... but it doesn't work. the only plan that really works is 'the evening before the deadline'. for the rest it's a lot about starting things... getting a mail...going on facebook...writing a tweet...listening to a song....watching a clip... having a skype-talk... doing a completely other task...making coffee...
the good thing is that we have a word for it these days: procrastination! when i was a teenager we didn't have that. i would have loved to use it with my parents and teachers: 'sorry...suffering from procrastination at the moment a lot...' they would have been impressed. but we didn't have it so they just told me to work harder and to put the right priorities in life. no excuses!
wiki-pedia says:'In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority or important actions with tasks of lower priority, or doing something from which one brings enjoyment, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time.' 
when surfing around a bit to find out how to overcome this newest disease you will be told to work with a 'to do list' but with priorities, to prioritize, to schedule, to manage and to set yourself goals. which sounds, in other words, a lot like what my parents and teachers told me years ago...
probably there will be a pill soon to fight this terrible disfunction. as they can develop a pill to keep your penis focussed longer it should be a piece of cake to keep your brains focussed for many many hours.


but i would propose not to fight procrastination but to celebrate it...to embrace making your day a complete chaos...full of enjoyment... to accept that the first thing you do is probably the most important!
and if there are still these kind of tasks which seems to be important but you never do... make them unimportant... kick them out of your list... it's just not your thing! 
yeah!!!! let's get procrastinated!!!