Making Sense of “Ins & Outs” Lists: A Blunt, No-Nonsense Guide
Hello dear readers,
Prepare yourself. I’m about to slam dunk your brain with a beast-of-a lesson on those strange beasts lurking in lifestyle sections and productivity blogs. They are known as the “Ins & Outs” lists. No fluff, no pretention: let’s dive into the crisp, cold water of reality – starting with what these lists actually are, and ending with how people (including maybe you!) are using them.
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So, let’s get down to brass tacks. “Ins & Outs” lists – what are they? Simply put, they’re checklists for your life, tasks for your purpose, ammunition for your procrastination. They function as a deliberate and simple guide to help you swerve the pitfalls, ride the high points, and drain out experiences of your daily life, whether it’s about personal growth, making your workspace more ergonomic, or curating the perfect vinyl collection.
Now that we’ve demystified what these lists are, you are probably sitting there twiddling your thumbs, wondering how people are actually using these things, right?
Picture the meditation guru who wants to delve deeper into the zen-world. They devise an “In & Out” list that focuses on ‘In’ things they want to incorporate into their practice, such as meditation sessions at sunrise, and ‘Out’ things they want to eliminate, like consuming caffeine before meditation.
Or visualize a supermom trying to juggle three kids and a corporate career. She uses an “In & Out” list to keep the household smoothly running – ‘In’ with routine bedtime, healthier dinners, and ‘Out’ with excessive screen times, and junk snacks.
This simple but powerful tool is used to structure productivity, manage habits, ease stress, and allow for necessary self-reflection. Used right, they are helping people embrace positivity, cleanliness, efficiency, and banishing procrastination, inefficiency, and mental clutter.
Now don’t you dare think that these lists are just for the super-disciplined or the OCD among us. Nope. These are for everyone. Yes, you heard it. Even for you, who’ve left your laundry unwashed for a week (don’t worry, your secret’s safe with me).
Think of these “Ins & Outs” lists as a personal guide, a counsellor, and a dictator – all in one; but this ain’t a totalitarian regime. You can play around, make amendments, personalize the list to make it work for you.
So, let’s get off the fence, stop spinning those mental wheels, and start making our own “Ins & Outs” lists. From healthier living habits to smarter working strategies, ‘in’ with things that set our soul on fire, and ‘out’ with what douses that flame.
And here’s the end of today’s blunt lesson, folks. I hope it’s not just another item on your reading list, but a push to get you going, to live a more organized, fulfilling life. Because whether we’re thriving or just surviving, we could all use a little guidance – and turns out, that guidance might have been nested in these “Ins & Outs” lists all along.
Till next time on our raw, real, and refreshingly blunt journey.
Yours sincerely,
William Thomas
P.S. Feel free to sprinkle in your sassy, sarcastic statements, like “Out: cleaning the house. In: hiring a maid because that’s above me now,” because after all, this is your list. You make it work for you!
Written By:
William Thomas
This isn’t rage—it’s truth with the volume turned up.
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