If you’re one of those who hates filling out forms on line, keeping your bills organized or renewing insurance or scheduling appointments or doing the other kinds of things you have to do in life, you are not alone.
A new study found that at least six out of ten adults suffer from what the researchers call “paperwork panic.”
They polled 2,000 people and they found that 58-percent say they often ignore a number of tasks on their to-do lists. About 15 percent saying they don’t have enough time and 12 percent saying it takes too long and they get frustrated. Some admitting that their to-do lists have grown in the past year.
And the study found that up to a third of those polled said that this so-called “paperwork panic” has stressed them out and has affected their health.
Interestingly, almost half of those in the study said they wished they had learned how to do life’s administrative tasks when they were in school.
Now some of us are clearly better at doing these kinds of tasks than others. If we’re lucky, our spouse our partner or a friend is good at it and we don’t have to worry about it.
But this study is a reminder that doing a to-do list is only as effective as we are at doing the tasks we need to do.
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