Susan's To-Do Playlist to Motivate Me Now

How do you complete your list of to-do's without feeling drained out? Why not create the perfect playlist to motivate you?

Copy all of the text in this post and create a new post to share your perfect to-do playlists.

Share five to-do's you need to complete within the week:

1. Write a show review and submit to my editor

2. Write a health-focused article and submit to my editor (not the same newspaper)

3. Write an album review and publish

4. Mail a copy of my chapbook to the Alumna Office of my alma mater.

5. Have lunch with my daughter

Share five songs on your playlist to get you through your to-do's:

1. Issa by Dobet Gnahoré

2. Coco Briaval • Les Yeux Noirs

3. Carriere Zydeco by BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet since that song is from the album I'm reviewing

4. Joe la Taxi as sung by Sharlene Boodram (see #14 at this link)

5. No Ordinary Love by Z-Plus

Add the tag todoplaylist to your post and submit it to the To Do Divas group with the words "To-Do Playlist" within the title (ex: Stefanie's To-Do Playlist, My Rockin' To-Do Playlist, etc). Please make sure to copy all these instructions to credit the To Do Divas group.

Gather will draw five participants who share their playlists (by following the directions above) to receive 250 Gather Points™ each! Your "My To-Do Playlist" must be posted by Thursday, May 21^st.

Comments: 12

Svetlana Goryacheva May 11, 2009, 3:30am EDT

Thank you for sharing your playlist with "Music Everywhere", dear Susan - I'll surely check the links! :-)

Blessings and best wishes - S.

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JOHN BECK May 11, 2009, 6:46am EDT

Sounds like a constructive start to the week to me. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful week, buoyed by the support of your Gather friends.

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Kerry Dexter May 11, 2009, 7:01am EDT

sounds a though you have a batch of good, focused work to sos, Susan. why are you sending your chapbook to your alma mater?

never exactly thought of songs to go along with a to do list (modern version of work songs I guess) I may have to pitch in with a list...

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Sarah A. Hopes for More TOS Enforcement May 11, 2009, 9:43am EDT

I'm exhausted....

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Susan Budig May 11, 2009, 11:11am EDT

Oh, hang-it-all, I can't do No. 4 until I've created a place on-line to sell my chapbook! Long story, but one must precede the other.

And I forgot that I must buy a plane ticket for another daughter this week!

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Rose H. May 11, 2009, 3:09pm EDT

What is a chapbooK?

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Bhawana 'Gather Proud Mom' May 11, 2009, 3:18pm EDT

These are so encouraging and off to listen the songs.

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Susan Budig May 11, 2009, 3:25pm EDT

Rose, a chapbook is a little book. It's not the same as a leaflet, but it's not a bound paperback or hardcover. My chapbook contains 24 pages and 18 poems. No illustrations save for the cover. I don't know where the name comes from.

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Heather ~of the Whippets~ M. May 13, 2009, 1:28am EDT

Good luck with the "to do" list. It sounds as though it is growing, though.

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John F Walter May 13, 2009, 10:09am EDT

Good for you and your self-motivating spirit. When I read this, I immediately wrote out a list that had lain dormant in my mind for how I was going to organize my productive week (the things I HAVE to get done, including sending out a couple of poems to magazines) around attending Granada´s Festival Internacional De Poesía. I´m also going to listen to all of these songs on your splendid playlist when I get back from the gym. I know you´re a zydeco feind, Susan, and I really like that music genre though all my zydeco albums are back in the States, so I´m listening to feel good Senegalese music here (Seckou Keita Sko).

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