The Hit List – The don’t do list

Oh the to-do list!  How I love you so much!  My desk is plastered with sticky-notes, each one filled to the brim with things that need to be done.

And let’s not forget the calendar, open-faced on my desk, scrawled with more lists and various plans that must happen, this week or soon after.  It’s all laid out, each item getting carefully checked off only to have one-more-thing added in that newly vacant spot.

So much gets done and yet there is still more to do. Always more to do.

But what about the stuff that I don’t want to do? The things that are a big fat no, no, NO? What about creating a don’t do list?  What might be on that don’t do list?

This:

I don’t do the phone to “just chat.”

I don’t do work for free.

I don’t do pink anything, ever. (Hello Kitty swag gets a free pass though.)

I don’t work on Sundays.

I don’t and won’t change my menu to suit anyone else. I’m the chef around here.

I don’t do dishes.

I don’t do last minute anything.

I don’t do “exceptions” (nor do I explain myself or my policies).

I don’t do anything that requires groveling.

I don’t do “no pain no gain” anything.

I don’t do debt.  I love being debt free (almost there with the house!).

I don’t and won’t do mean.  Not being mean, not allowing mean.

This is what I don’t do.

Any questions?

What’s on your don’t do list?

Paw-mistry

Other stuff:

Sugar: a matter of life or death.

I hope no one is this desperate to go to Coachella.

I got to speak with the uh-may-zing Gabriela Herstik over at Nylon for her Ask A Witch series. Our topic? Everything You Want To Know About Tarot.

Gala Darling asks: What’s your happiness recipe?

Starcat Tarot has a brand new class for newbies: Introduction to the Tarot.

Inquiring minds want to know: what would be the actual physical damages from those booby traps in Home Alone? 

I love reading about how other people plan. Here’s Denise Duffield Thomas’ planning process for 2017.

8 Reminders to Not Be So Hard On Yourself When You’re Just Trying to Survive.

The interesting life of Margaret Wise Brown, the woman who wrote Goodnight Moon.

This photographer is turning women into strange superheroes.

A must read: Breast cancer while broke.

A look Inside the lives of Female White Supremacists in America.

The loneliness of the subway nap.

Wondering why so many women voted for Trump? Some of them share their thoughts.

Flight 666 landed safely in HEL on Friday the 13th. You can’t make this stuff up!

Loving this from Melissa Cynova over at Modern Creative Life: It works because you think it will.

Why not? This woman got a tarot reading for her cat.

Wow: GOCA to open “The Black Power Tarot” downtown.

The latest from Cassandra Snow’s excellent Queering The Tarot series.

I just preordered this: There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love.

On my wish list: The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters by Emily Esfahani Smith. 

Jenny Lawson has a new book coming out: You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds.

Now this is one high tech water bottle.

One of my yoga students got me a set of the BonVivant Botanical Clay Masks – and I’m hooked!

I’m also OBSESSED with these sheet masks (am not allowed to wear them in front of my husband – he thinks they are horrifying ha ha!).

What I’m Grateful For:

NO.

Order in the house.

Ice melting stuff.

Cat paws.

Cooking classes.

 

Soundtrack for 1/12/17:

Nick Grant – Get Up / The Sing Along ft. Ricco Barrino, WatchTheDuck

Blessings,
Theresa

© Theresa Reed | The Tarot Lady 2017

images from stock photography and personal collection

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