More on meals and meal prep
A new grocery store just opened in my suburb -- it's about a 4 minute drive from the house. This is exciting for shopping convenience …Read More
Category Archives: Planning
Vacations and working ahead
I'll be away from my desk for quite a while at the end of August and the beginning of September. I figure one of the …Read More
Trying to calm the chaos
One of the benefits, though perhaps perils, of planning is that you can see upcoming crunches. This means you can work to make them better. …Read More
The 5-year travel plan revisited
About 18 months ago, Sarah and I did a Best of Both Worlds episode on our 5-year travel plans. We're going to be revisiting that …Read More
How to make Fridays less crunched
One of my favorite time management rules is to Plan on Fridays (it is Rule #2 in Tranquility by Tuesday). Anyone with a busy life …Read More
If you can’t work, plan
We've all been there -- low energy times when you're having trouble making progress on anything. Maybe it's the mid-afternoon slump. Maybe it's a few …Read More
Weekend planning follow-up: Things don’t go as planned, but why I plan anyway
For my Tranquility by Tuesday project in 2021 (which was the basis for the book of the same name in 2022), I had 150 people …Read More
How I plan my weekends
By mid-spring, weekends definitely start to get full. People have various athletic and other competitive endeavors. This year we are light on team sports (I …Read More
A List of 100 Dreams update, 2015 to now
I'll be running my annual time-tracking challenge from January 9-15, 2023. If this is anything like past years, thousands of folks will commit to tracking …Read More
When plans don’t stay planned
I created quite the summer camp spreadsheet over the past few weeks. I didn't start quite as early this year as some years but I …Read More