and this is why I am using ninja mind control to create an army of minions

My to-do list has always been long. Really, really long. During the years I ran a company, I'd typically have a to-do list that was ten or twelve pages long in Word, single-spaced. Eventually, I'd pull some items out of it and create a separate "priority list," which would grow longer and longer until it supplanted the real list and, in due time, spawned baby lists of its own.

At some point, I figured out it would be good to take things that weren't to-do items but merely good ideas ("start an S&M coffee shop where you'll take your coffee black and like it!") and put them someplace else, so my to-do list wouldn't be so overwhelming. So I started a Filemaker database of business ideas.

My current to-do list is maybe 4-5 pages. It seems like this is way too long, but I've reached a sort of Zen about it. I figure, so what if I only accomplish ten percent of the items on my list, if my ten percent is still twice as much as what everybody else is doing? The rest is not undone; it's merely ... ripening.