one of the first things i do each morning is write a list of all the things i hope to accomplish that day–work tasks, meetings, and personal errands. i dream of reaching a point when my to-do list is so well managed that i have that lovely “crossed everything off my list” feeling seven nights a week. in large part that’s because the list is full of non-work tasks like exercising, booking a haircut, or working on a personal writing project that are most likely to be left undone (though there are nights when i move work tasks from today’s to-do list to tomorrow’s to-do list, which is an awful 