1.   A useful tool for planning, making a list is also a good way to balance the pros and cons of a particular course of action.

2.   But list making is not for everyone.

3.   The list making was spurred by an academic desire to be encyclopedic about what man had accomplished in the known world.

4.   There are two more years of aggressive list making before us.

5.   To break it down to a level both reasonable and understandable, I fall back on the age-old practice of list making.