Maybe you aren’t as interested in Magic as you thought you were. I find that when I’m really into something new, or any project, I will sometimes make a list, but then completely ignore it while I follow various tangents I get taken on. By the time I look at my list again, I can cross off half of it. Some lists are made just to get things out of your head to free the mind up to explore more freely.
In a similar way, at the start of each year I make a list of a bunch of stuff I want to do that year. I don’t use that list to schedule things out and make sure I get them done. In fact, I rarely look at it. The act of making the list puts the ideas in my mind, and when opportunities present themselves, I’m more likely to notice them and say yes to the opportunity. By the end of the year I end up being able to cross off a fair number of them.
When I treat lists as things I must get done, I rarely do them. List making then turns into a form of procrastination. I make the list and feel like I did something, and then I don’t feel like I have to do the thing, because it’s on the list for later. If it’s not a thing I need to do, it won’t get done.
Another thing I try to keep in mind was a technique I saw where you write down everything you could to do for a certain goal, but then look at the list and think about what the actual goal is as pick out the few things on the list that would actually allow you to call the goal done… and actually enjoy doing it. It seems like number one on the list would be finding people to play Magic with regularly and doing that. I imagine that would inform and prompt everything else you might want to do on that topic, and give it purpose.
In a similar way, at the start of each year I make a list of a bunch of stuff I want to do that year. I don’t use that list to schedule things out and make sure I get them done. In fact, I rarely look at it. The act of making the list puts the ideas in my mind, and when opportunities present themselves, I’m more likely to notice them and say yes to the opportunity. By the end of the year I end up being able to cross off a fair number of them.
When I treat lists as things I must get done, I rarely do them. List making then turns into a form of procrastination. I make the list and feel like I did something, and then I don’t feel like I have to do the thing, because it’s on the list for later. If it’s not a thing I need to do, it won’t get done.
Another thing I try to keep in mind was a technique I saw where you write down everything you could to do for a certain goal, but then look at the list and think about what the actual goal is as pick out the few things on the list that would actually allow you to call the goal done… and actually enjoy doing it. It seems like number one on the list would be finding people to play Magic with regularly and doing that. I imagine that would inform and prompt everything else you might want to do on that topic, and give it purpose.