I am very right-brained, which makes some things more challenging than others.
For example, some things might be easier if I became willing to be more like a left-brained person. Things like bookkeeping, for example.
I think that the Internet will probably revolutionize the world for right-brained folks like myself. I think it will give us more permission than ever to accept ourselves the way we’re wired, and eve vindicate us, as not wrong or backwards, but perhaps just different.
Besides, I like being right-brained. I believe that by listening to my needs and responding to them that I can support myself to success right brain and all. As long as I make cumulative gains, I don’t judge.
And I do make cumulative gains. So by my own definition, I’m already a success.
Rather than be very hard on myself and ask myself all the time, “Oh Christina, why can’t you just be like everyone else?” I try instead, when I succeed at doing something my way, to say, “Hey, I did it my way and—check it out—no one got hurt. In fact, I did well.”
Perhaps all creatives feel this way. It’s a good topic for discussion, for sure. I could probably write a book on the topic (maybe some day I will).
For today, I want to share a visual to-do list that I made for myself with you. Hopefully it will spark some permission for you to deviate from the traditional to-do list format, if you feel like it.
I needed some help keeping track of my ever-flowing to-dos.
Feel free to steal this Word document and play around with it to make it your own. I jot a few things in each box to help me prioritize. I’m also using the sheet for goals setting in each arena.
Enjoy!
When you click on the link. The To-Do List will download to your desktop. 
Thanks. At first, it threw me off because my brain thinks differently, but like you said making it relevant to me would work. I love that on one sheet of paper I can see the big picture … which helps, or should help, to prioritize the day. I am one who is very unorganized in an organized manner so perhaps this will help me actually do a to-do list every day instead of when things get out of control.
Great list! It reminds me a bit of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits, which I haven’t read in, oh, 12 years! But I’ll give it a whirl - my three main areas are our golf business, my writing, and my kids. Huh, I guess I should put something in for my marriage somewhere …
The image didn’t import - can you post it somewhere so I can grab it and put it on the worksheet? I use a white board, which is great, but this would be terrific to keep with me at all times, especially since my son just figured out how to erase the white board …