This was always a popular dialog between my father and I in my youth:

“Did you do what I asked?”

“What did you ask?”

“You don’t remember?”

“Uh… I guess not.”

“Did you write it down like I asked?”

“No.”

Dad was always telling me to write down the various chores he’d ask me to do. I don’t believe I ever once did it, and yet he kept telling me to do it. It wasn’t until years after he’d gone that I found, for myself, what he’d been trying to teach me all along: keeping and using a to-do list is crucial for any accomplishment.
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