💬 Finished my whole to-do list yesterday for the first time since March

Yesterday I finished every single thing on my to-do list. All 9. First time since about March, I checked. Most days I carry 3 or 4 things over to the next day, and some of them have been sitting there for weeks. Call the dentist was on my list for 47 days. Yesterday I called the dentist. I was so proud I told my wife at dinner like I'd got a promotion. She said that's nice and kept eating. I don't even know what was different. Same job, same 2 kids, same 40 minute drive to the office in Edison. Maybe it was that I wrote only 9 things instead of my usual 15. Normal people would have figured that out years ago. Or maybe it's that I did the worst one first. Called the dentist at 9:05, before I could talk myself out of it. After that everything else felt easy. Even the car registration renewal, which I'd been dreading. The weird part was the evening. 7 pm, nothing left to do, and I didn't know what to do with myself. Walked around the house. Opened the fridge twice. Sat down, got up, almost started tomorrow's list. My wife told me to just sit. So I sat on the couch and watched cricket highlights for an hour without guilt. Can't remember the last time I did that. No list in my head, nothing chasing me. Today's list has 7 things on it. I've done 2 so far and it's 3 pm, so let's not get carried away. Anyone else get way too happy over something this small? Tell me I'm not the only one. And if you have a trick that keeps the list short, I'll take it. Mine is apparently just fewer items. Took me about 15 years of lists to work that out.

The dentist at 47 days is the most relatable line in this thread. I once left a call to the bank on my list for 3 months and then did it in 4 minutes.

Cleared my whole list twice this year and both times I mentioned it to my roommate like it was some real achievement, which looking back is a little funny. The rest of the day just feels lighter somehow, like nothing else can go wrong once that list is finally empty. Does not happen often enough for the feeling to get old though, so I still enjoy it every time.