What one thing can't you seem to scratch off your to-do list?

To-do list book.

I started making a "To-Do" list when I was in college. Back then, everything listed gets done. For some time when I just started working I get rid of making a "To-Do" list. The reason?.. I simply don't know. Maybe I got too occupied with the thrill of being a young career woman and wrapped myself in a whirlwind of events that a "To-Do" list don't seem necessary or was just forgotten and ignored. Then I got myself a level-up on a job and worked overseas as a Medical Laboratory Science Officer particularly in a Blood Bank Department. I undergo a tough training that was focused on quality control. Efficiency on the job wasn't just a target and preference but a command for every Blood Bank Staff. The department has different checklist for whoever is working on a particular shift. It served as a guide to avoid making mistakes and forgetting to do what needs to be done that would result to compromising the entire workflow of the department or in some cases the hospital's. Experiencing the organized system with the checklist, I decided to make a "To-Do" list once again. Aside from our usual 8-hour or 12-hour shift at around four-five times in a week ,there is really nothing much to do when you are in a place where it is prohibited to have fun. Since going out of the prison-like accommodation is limited, we make ourselves busy with cooking, reading, laundry, TV, getting online to keep in touch with family back home, marking Xs on the calendar towards your next vacation, budgeting your hard earned money left because a large part of it belongs to the the remittance center sent back home, there isn't really a long list to write on my so-called "To-Do" list. We spend our time most on cooking then as a result we gained weight and a plan to lose weight gained is some thing I was never be able to scratch off and marked DONE on my "To-Do" list.

I ended my contract and came home. I am now a full-time, stay-at-home mom and my habit of making and following my "To-Do" list really help. As
I go over my note pad which I call my Power-Notebook ,one thing has never get marked as done and would always end up listed on the next page. I am alternately writing in on the top, in the middle or last on every list I wrote. The familiar "take a walk", "run", "work-out", "no-rice day", "no-SODA today" were the written always like the rest such as "pay the bills", "make a reviewer for Wine", "Check pointers for kids exam" but unlike the latter my lose-weight plans list doesn't have a tick, a scratch, a check but instead....it will end up listed on the next page like an endorsement.

Do you have something that you can't seem to scratch off your To-DO list?