Organise my TO DO List

Braindump everything you can think of that needs doing onto a sheet of paper - irrespecitive of whether its a work task, family task, home task etc... ANYTHING that you have in your head that needs to be done should be noted down. You should already feel a little better to have got this out of your head at last (or off those many lists you have been using up to now!)
Group items together (like with like i.e. home related, family related, social related, work related etc...)
Ensure that only tasks that get you toward your goals, or that are crucial to the smooth running of the home are on this list. If there are others then the likelihood is that they are never going to be important enough to do anyway, or if you do do them, they will take up your valuable time that you could have been using so much better elsewhere. Cross out any superfluous tasks.
Write all the TO DO's down in their groups (in priority order), and for each one create a column for ticking off when done, a column for who in the home needs to do it, and a column for how long it will take. This is now your MASTER TO DO LIST
Keep this in a central place (ideally your HOME FILE - more on this in later posts) where you and the family can add tasks as they come up.
Weekly (ideally) go through and add into your diary as many of the TO DO's as you can in any time you may have - starting with the top priority and taking into account the time they will need to get done. Scheduling in your TO DO's means you are much more likely to keep on track with them, and having 1 place for your TO DO list means you will feel more in control about what needs to be done and when.

Please note that this method means that any TO DO's with a deadline should be placed in your diary in the right timescale to get it done - so you won't be late with things again, and this should leave you feeling much more stress free. Ongoing, anything that has a date should really go straight into your diary, and anything that can be done at any time can go on your TO DO list. As your TO DOs become more urgent, they will go up the list and then be placed into your diary.

Also - you can use your master TO DO list to break larger tasks up into smaller ones - that way you will be able to fit in smaller bits of work that still bring you towards your goals i.e.

Get memorabilia albums for everyone in the family sorted out
- Collate all pictures, cards, artwork etc... for each person
- Decide on which pieces you are going to keep
- Purchase albums with enough space for what you want to keep
- Complete person A's album
- Complete person B's album

Try it and let me know how you get on! I have also always used this for my way of working at work (or when working from home) and it has proven time and again that it really works. You always know where you are with things!