Prepare to Plan

And We’re Back..

Happy beginning of the week, my friends! I hope you’ve all had relaxing and refreshing weekends and are ready to tackle this work week. I know I had a fantastic weekend, but I feel like I’m {still} trying to get on board with the fact that I have about 8 meetings this week, on top of all my day to day work that I have to complete. Going to make for a tired wife and a coffee overload.

This weekend was full of friends, family, fun, and relaxation. The weather was absolutely stunning, so I hope you all managed to get out if you live around my neck of the woods. Charles and I managed to sneak in a few hours binge watching episodes of Last Man Standing {I’m kind of a Tim Allen freak, love him!} It’s so nice when we actually find a show that both of us really enjoy watching. I’m on the hunt currently for all seasons of HBO’s Entourage, because we both love the show and it hasn’t been aired in quite some time. We want to buy all the seasons and watch the episodes together.

Here’s my life via iPhone...

Glade released even more new products, and you know how obsessed I am with candles, scentsy stuff, sprays, etc. So of course I had to get a couple...I need help. Also pictured in this collage is myself, bored, waiting for Charles to finish his errands {I swear, errands take about 10x longer when he goes.. :D} On the bottom, we have some fresh veggies we made to go with our dinner on Friday. We are trying to replace the pastas we used to have with veggies. Pictured above are some of our favorites...and we also had some delicious strawberry muffins for breakfast this weekend, because breakfast really is important..who knew?!

 

A little Sunday afternoon golf. Look who's in the background {the hubs!}

My little golfer :D

Enjoying a cozy Sunday with my husband, drinking a hot cup of coffee, watching Last Man Standing. Perfection

Make ahead fritattas for breakfast! Serve them with a little salsa and they're incredible, but I like my make ahead breakfast burritos better. Recipe for the fritattas here!

 

 

 

Typically, I know when busy weeks are coming…they say the best defense is a good offense, so I figure the only way to beat it is to get ahead of it and attack. I can’t stress this to you enough, if you know you’ll be busy, plan, plan, plan.

Yes, I realize that sounds extremely boring. You’ll thank me later.

If you don’t plan ahead for weeks like the one I’m about to have, you’ll get behind, you’ll get stressed, you’ll be tired, you won’t stay on track. The first thing I do when I’m stressed or tired? I grab a coke. This doesn’t need to happen when I’m trying to only drink water {…and my nightly glass of wine..} Water is not only good for your skin, but helps your hair grow and helps it from becoming less frizzy, but it also helps clear your skin, helps there be less bags under your eyes, helps you lose weight, and the list just keeps on going. I want to be bikini ready by boat season. I want my hair to grow. I want my skin to glow. Coke. Just. Cannot. Happen. Yet if I don’t plan ahead and I get behind, or stressed, or tired, it’s the first thing I grab. That makes me get off track in one way.

Meal planning has been big for Charles and I this month. We are both wanting to tone up for lake season, as well as we just want to become healthier overall. Meal planning has helped me in several ways: first, I am not having to think long and hard about what we have in the fridge that I can cook for dinner, which typically leads to me either having to make another trip to the store or making something completely unhealthy. By making weekly menu’s, we know we have all of the ingredients that we need and we plan to make it healthy. When I get home from work, I simply prepare the dinner while we watch the news {we’re getting older, I can feel it every day…} and then we sit down to a nice dinner.

We have also started eating breakfast and taking vitamins. I already feel like I have 3x as much energy as compared to before, which helps during stressful weeks like the one I’m about to have. By prepping these breakfasts ahead of time, all I have to do is “grab it and go” in the mornings and take it to work with me. No fuss involved.

Last week, I planned out my daily to do’s for work out to make sure I had an adequate amount of time to complete all of my work responsibilities, and I planned this time around all of my meetings. Now I know that I have enough time to keep up with my work, my meetings, my training, etc. which leads to a less stressed Michele.

If I don’t plan ahead, I get stressed. Plain and simple. That could lead me to snapping at my husband, yelling at the dogs, being irritable and making others around me uncomfortable, grabbing the coke because I need the energy, grabbing junk to eat because I don’t have time to prepare a decent meal..the list really goes on. Why not just AVOID these things altogether and stay on the track to becoming the best possible version of myself.

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”