Favorite Motto

If you've been reading a lot of my posts, you have probably identified a common theme or mantra that I live by:

If you've failed to plan, you've planned to fail.

I wanted to put down a few things that I do to plan and make life more manageable.

Vitamins: Every Thursday night is Vitamin night. I take about 10-15 minutes to organize my vitamins into an organizer. This 10-15 minutes means every morning, I just grab my container for the day and I'm good. Part of why this works for me is because I use Celebrate vitamins specifically formulated for bariatric patients. If I had more individual supplements, the 10-15 minutes that it took would be extended but still, it would make the rest of the week easier.

Meal Planning: A few days before I go shopping, I write out a little quick agenda of the week's events. I indicate if we have plans, and how those plans affect our eating habits. Sometimes, it might be being out all day so we're going to eat out, or we might have a potluck event that we need to plan for. I organize what we might want to eat on given days (20 minutes if you add in looking for recipes that I've already found) then I...

Write a food list: I take this writing out a food list a step further. I write down all of the ingredients we need and I indicate what recipe it will be used for. I learned this when I went to make a Broccoli Slaw for a party and Broccoli was just stupid expensive at the store so I decided to make something different, but I didn't know what other items were for the recipe, so I bought everything except broccoli.

Organizing Time: Google Calendar has been a lifesaver. But I take it a step further. I put in the times for working out just as I would a doctors appointment. This serves two purposes. I see that it's there and if I'm trying to make plans I know I need to reschedule, and also it makes working out less of a "if it's convenient" thing and more of a "this is a thing I need to do".

By doing all of these things (and more I'm sure I'll think of later) I organize my time and plan my hours properly.