Master Listers

Master Listers

ComputerPeople who dance are dancers, people who sing are singers, people who clean are cleaners, people who golf are golfers, therefore it only makes sense, that people who make lists are Listers. People who take list making to a higher level are Master Listers. I know some people who are Master Listers and I’m sure you do to!

My sister-in-law Linda is a Master Lister. Linda has her main grocery list on the computer where she has several options, when she goes to the store she can simply print a copy of the master list and highlight the needed items. Where she lives in Dallas, Linda also has the option to email her list to the local grocery store; someone else does the shopping and actually delivers it to her house. Oh the power of lists!

Lisa is part of the sandwich generation and another Master Lister. When Lisa goes to the grocery store she not only shops for her family she also does the grocery shopping for her mother. Lisa has developed a listing system with items listed in the same order as she shops in the store. She also puts items for herself in one color and items for her mother in a different color on her list, that way she’s able to keep track of who wanted what.

Kirsten Lagatree wrote the book, Checklists for Life: 104 Lists to Help You Get Organized, Save Time, andUncluttered Your Life. She is a Master Lister.
Sandra Choron and Harry Choron authored ‘The Book of Lists for Kids ‘ and ‘The Book of Lists for Teens’; they must believe in the value of lists and are Master Listers.

What makes one person more likely to be a Lister or a Master Lister than another?
According to The New Birth Order, a book by Dr. Keven Leman, it may depend on your birth order. Dr. Leman writes ‘only children’ are organized perfectionists who are list makers. First- born children are organized goal oriented list makers. This doesn’t mean that middle children (like me) or last-born children aren’t Listers, but perhaps they have a more creative approach to list making (like Lisa).