I tend to be impulsive, and yet–I’m all over the internet this week talking about different kinds of planning.
Over on the Influence blog, I’m sharing how I plan for inspiration (even though many bloggers resist the planning).
I hear this a lot: many bloggers choose not to plan posts in advance. They want their voice to remain authentic, and therefore choose to only write when they feel like they have something to say. Planning in advance, scheduling content–these are the enemies of authenticity.
But are they?
I appreciate their desire to remain authentic.But it’s also true that planning is not the enemy of authentic improvisation. Planning can actually foster it…
Head over to the Influence blog to read the rest.
Over on Food Your Way, I’m sharing my best tips for how to prepare for your first Whole 30 challenge.
When you’re on your first Whole 30, you have to figure out a whole new way of eating while simultaneously cooking a ton. You could handle either challenge on its own, but doing both at the same time is tough!
To succeed with a Whole 30 (or any other big lifestyle change), the key is to simplify the cooking until you get a handle on this new way of eating…
Read the rest at Food Your Way.
Are you inclined to plan by nature, or inclined to be impulsive?
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I am a total planner. It makes me so happy to know what’s going on, what I’m doing, and when I’m doing it. That’s one of the harder aspects of mothering for me – I can’t plan my day/week as much as I’d like.
And if I ever did a Whole 30, I already know that I’d have to have a detailed plan of what we’d eat, or it wouldn’t last past the first day. Not so detailed as to day one – this for breakfast, lunch, dinner, but as in: here are several ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner. And snacks.
So maybe I’m not completely over the top about planning.
I have an unfortunate tendency to plan thoroughly and then ignore the plan. Somehow, once I’m done planning all I see are the flaws in the plan, so I throw out the baby with the bathwater and wing it!
I’m actually working to plan a little less, but keep the plans I make. Blogging is a prime example: I finally started my blog last week, immediately set myself a very well-organized 3 post a day schedule, and then proceeded to ignore it and not blog for several days.
Luckily, I caught myself pretty quickly. Now I’m trying for one post a day, six days a week. I also gave myself two suggested topics for each day.
I’m hoping that a plan that’s flexible will be easier to follow.
I plan, but not meticulously. I have ideas and think them through and then work them out. But I am not the type to make a blueprint.
My wife, on the other hand, is a list-maker extraordinaire, taking planning to a level I never dreamed possible. One great thing about lists, you know, is the checking part. Not as in making a list and checking it twice. As in yay-that’s-done-and-now-I-get-to make-a-big-checkmark-next-to-it! That checking off bit seems very cathartic for her.