Anyone who knows me, would know that I love to make "To-Do lists". This is the first thing I do before I start my day and sometimes I start off the list in my head while driving before writing it down visually!
When COVID happened, with WFH concept - I started including personal items in my list and it would look something like this...
- Make bfast and feed kids
- Attend stand up
- Eat bfast
- Back to work
- Workout before lunch
- lunch
... you get the idea!
Anyway as I got more items to do, my list got more sophisticated with prioritization (important vs urgent), and timings, etc. So there was one incident that kinda shook me to the core, and got my lists to a full STOP.
As usual I was juggling a lot of activities, and had planned my meetings around dropping my kids for their summer classes and driving in Bangalore traffic. One such day, I was dropping my son at his Chess class and rushing back home as there was a 1x1 meeting I could not be late to! As I was planning in my head, I did not do my usual chit-chat with my son and instead was wondering how to get back home on time..
I dropped my son on the opposite side of the road, and wanted to just rush back.. I was expecting my son to cross the road carefully based on all theoretical lessons of 'Look left and right'? My son just took a mad dash without any looking around, and I could see my urgency was getting into him too! Was shocked to see the impact and that day I let go of my high urgency To-Do list..
Things could wait, my life can slow down... nothing is as important as the safety of my kids, and my peace of mind
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