Brain Dump trigger lists

[McBenny]

I learned about brain dumps years ago. At the time there was no mention of a trigger list but it makes sense. I am C+P it here in case someone needs some help compiling their list.

There is a professional one too. I will post that one too if someone is interested.

•Projects started, not completed
•Projects that need to be started

•Commitments/promises to others

•Spouse
•Children
•Family
•Friends
•Professionals
•Borrowed items

•Projects: other organizations

•Service
•Civic
•Volunteer

•Communications to make/get

•Family
•Friends
•Professional
•Initiate or respond to:

•Phone calls
•Letters
•Cards


•Upcoming events

•Special occasions
•Birthdays
•Anniversaries
•Weddings
•Graduations
•Holidays
•Travel
•Weekend trips
•Vacations
•Social events
•Cultural events
•Sporting events

•R&D–things to do

•Places to go
•People to meet/invite
•Local attractions

•Administration

•Financial

•Bills
•Banks
•Investments
•Loans
•Taxes

•Insurance
•Legal affairs
•Filing

•Waiting for…

•Mail order
•Repair
•Reimbursements
•Loaned items
•Medical data
•RSVPs

•Home/household

•Landlords
•Property ownership

•Legal
•Real estate
•Zoning
•Taxes
•Builders/contractors

•Heating/air-conditioning
•Plumbing
•Electricity
•Roofing
•Landscape
•Driveway
•Walls/floors/ceilings
•Decoration
•Furniture
•Utilities
•Appliances
•Lightbulbs/wiring
•Kitchen things
•Washer/dryer/vacuum
•Areas to organize/clean
•VCR/DVD
•Music/CDs/tapes
•Cameras/film
•Phones
•Answering machine
•Sports equipment
•Closets/clothes
•Garage/storage
•Vehicle repair/maintenance
•Tools
•Luggage

•Computers

•Software
•Hardware
•Connections
•CD-ROM
•E-mail/Internet

•Health care

•Doctors
•Dentists
•Specialists

•Hobbies

•Books/records/tapes/disks

•Errands

•Hardware store
•Drugstore
•Market
•Cleaner
•Stationer

•Community

•Neighborhood
•Schools
•Local government

•Civic issues

[klw]

Thanks for sharing. I found that doing a brain dump before bed has helped me get to sleep.

[McBenny]

Mar 3, 2020 5:04:04 GMT -6 klw said:

Thanks for sharing. I found that doing a brain dump before bed has helped me get to sleep.

Same.

This is why I am always sharing it with people. I think of all the sleep I would have gotten if I knew about this sooner.

[mishy]

This list is fantastic. It can be hard for me to categorize everything floating around my head sometimes so this is really helpful.

[Deleted]

Thanks for this list. It definitely touches on areas I wouldn’t have though if. I’m going to tackle some of them and then can organize them later in a more planned way that works to accomplish them.

[AmyG]

this is why I have a whole BOOK of lists
and when I get stressed I go rewrite the whole damned book
and try to hopefully cross off some things that are to do's from the old book.
and then carry a thing or two from each topic area into my month's planner and try to not stress about the rest of it.

[klw]

Mar 5, 2020 22:38:22 GMT -6 AmyG said:

this is why I have a whole BOOK of lists
and when I get stressed I go rewrite the whole damned book
and try to hopefully cross off some things that are to do's from the old book.
and then carry a thing or two from each topic area into my month's planner and try to not stress about the rest of it.

I ordered some lined paper for my planner so maybe I will use a few pages for this. Each page could have a theme. 😉

[roseinbloom]

I have used journals or sticky notes and like to keep running lists whenever thigs pop into my brain and then tidy the list up later. Like I keep transferring stuff on the lists that wasn’t crossed off and organize them by the earliest likelihood of crossing stuff off.

But I have a love/hate relationship with my lists. I have a hard time letting things go. So then there ends up being this mental baggage of something still undone or perfectionist tendencies being frustrated.

I have lists everywhere (handwritten and typed) and I go to them depending on which one I can handle or is most useful/necessary at the moment.