“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)
Where across the course of your day today, could you consider where it might be that you are throwing random items into the trolley of your life, without a shopping list?
Living not too far from the local shops, I have found that daily shopping works well for me when it comes to planning what I eat.
From time to time, I may need things like light bulbs, batteries, cleaning products, spices, or garbage bags, and if I don’t write these on a list, I more often than not return home without the item I needed.
I know that if I am shopping for breakfast, I am choosing to buy from my list of superfoods: cottage cheese, ricotta, yoghurt, avocado, a banana, eggs, sourdough, sardines, smoked salmon and oranges.
If I am shopping for lunch, I am either going to buy a Muscle Chef meal with 60 grams of protein, if I am measuring my macros, or a steak if I have trained that morning.
I shopped on Saturday, without a list and wandered from aisle to aisle.
When I got to the register, I had batteries, a light bulb, shampoo & conditioner, a banana, ricotta, honey and olive oil. The amount on the till seemed unusually high for the 8 items in my cart, so I decided that batteries weren’t necessary on this occasion and was prepared to pay the adjusted price.
Goal setting requires you to write a shopping list of what it is you want for your life.
If you write down what you want, the price you pay at the checkout is your time.
If you don’t write your goals down, as necessary as they are to achieve, you can easily forget to prioritise your time around them.
Here’s the thing: without a list of goals, you can be wandering from aisle to aisle in the supermarket of your life. Aisle do this one day, aisle do that someday and aisle probably be required to put something back on the shelf, especially if it’s ego.
While you’re thinking about that, think about this and have a Gr8 day!
Be well,
DL
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)