The value of creating a timeline of all your writing works in progress & their stages

I have created a very simple and very effective writing motivator. It’s a spreadsheet in which I’ve listed every one of my works in progress. This ranges from finished and published works to ideas I’ve only just started to jot down notes for. I’ve given myself space to inputthe date when each project transitioned to a new stage (ie from idea to 1st draft, 1st draft to beta draft, beta to submission, etc) as well as a column that calculates the total age of a project from inception to today as...