The Sticky Note System Part 3: The Responsibilities List

Weekly e-mails, zoom calls, and more. If there's anything humans are prone to forget, these are it. Here's the problem with this. Improving yourself and taking on leadership positions inherently includes these responsibilities. For example, as the president of my local National Homeschool Honor Society chapter, I sometimes have to send emails on specific days. In addition, there are a lot of random, unscheduled tasks that fall on me to be completed. And this principles apply to all the other leadership positions I hold. However, it's hard to balance all of these things that are scheduled or even unscheduled with a to-do list. The solution I've found is the third part of the series, "The Sticky Note System". It's called the responsibilities list.

Here's how it works: Create a simple list of the responsibilities you have outside of school. This isn't a list of all the chores you have to do because of your position. It is a list of the positions themselves. To use the aforementioned example, one subpoint of my responsibilities list is entitled, "National Honors Society". That's the only information I include. Each night, when I am making my To-Do List (see Part 1 of this series), I skim this list of roles/organizations I am committed to. After doing this, I determine what is most urgent and delegate one or two of those tasks to the next day. It's really simple.

This system has been beyond helpful for me. I highly encourage that you use it. Make sure to add as much as you need to your responsibilities list. It doesn't take much work to skim over this list at night. Add anything outside of school that requires some sort of work. A couple of days ago, I added this blog to my responsibilities list. So, if I haven't posted in a while, I will be reminded of that each night. I will thus be incentivized to post again. Clearly, this is a great method for learning personal accountability.

Again, this has been SOOOOO helpful for me. It's literally changed my life. I hope it will change yours as well.

Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments section. Also, if you end up employing this practice, I would love to hear your results!

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