Life a mess? Make a list

It's 5 o'clock in the morning, and the house is quiet except for snores. I'm sitting up in bed scribbling a to-do list in the dark on a small notepad. It's a habit that started a few years ago when I would awake from a sound sleep with tasks streaming through my brain like the stock ticker on CNBC.

By Cindy Krischer Goodman, McClatchy Newspapers

October 11, 2011