The Not ToDo list

As most of you know, I work hard to fill me day, minimize my items which slip through the cracks, keep from distractions, build the perfect routine. I keep a log, a todo list, get help applying pressure with accountability. I am happy to be this way, but when you push and push and push the same things, the enjoyment of doing them is reduced.

With this thought, I've come to the realization I am good at adding more, and doing that more, what ever it is, everyday, but not good at removing things. If a healthy balance with exercise won't work the same muscle group everyday and if a healthy diet includes a variety of eating certain foods, nothing all the time, than should a healthy life balance take breaks? Is their anything we should be doing everyday? Ok, read your bible and brush your teeth everyday, but these other things fall into ruts.

My thought, a malformed as it is right now, is this, in addition to having a todo list, introducing a not-todo list.

I've already introduced one of these as a separate idea, before it occurred to me it might be worth expanding. My diet right now, and for the last two weeks, has one day when I don't log any food. I don't look up any points. It is a no diet pressure day. I escape from the restrictions I put on it the rest of the week. To do this, I adjust my points assuming half of my weekly points will be used in that day, but it is worth is just to have the escape. It feels great to take the break and afterwards it is not that hard to get back to it. So, how does it work, since I started doing this, about two weeks ago, I've lost four pounds.

What else could I apply this to? A day with no housework. Yes, there are days when I don't do housework, but I mean setting aside one day when you just agree you won't, so it becomes easier to do on the other days. Perhaps a no meeting day at work. A no e-mail day. A no TV day. A no computer day. There is so much it would be interesting, probably beneficial to take a break from.

What would you add to your non-Todo list? What would change if you had one day that you didn't do X?