I keep lists for everything, and I found that removing the time requirements from most things alleviated the stress. Now I just keep lists of things I need/want

I keep lists for everything, and I found that removing the time requirements from most things alleviated the stress. Now I just keep lists of things I need/want to remember. I actually have a note/list for Magic The Gathering (I have one for every game I play). I keep a list of every deck I have with ideas and things to try for each one. When I see a card or ability I want to try, I write it down to remember. I also keep a list of new deck ideas. For learning things, I tend to make lists of concepts and sub-concepts to learn, but I don't worry about when I need to learn it. I just get to it whenever. All my lists are organized into note files on specific topics, so whenever I want to remember what I need to do for any particular thing, I just open that note and see how my progress is on that thing. It's important to be okay with deleting a bunch of stuff out of your lists when you don't need it anymore. Sometimes you make a big nice list about something, but then you finish the project and half the stuff isn't checked off the list. Sometimes you just need to re-work the list. So for me, the notes and lists are a memory aid. When I go back to learning something, I don't need to do a bunch of prerequisite analysis every time to remember what I was supposed to be doing. I just re-get my memory from my notes and take off with it.