Today’s episode is devoted to the Ideal Week exercise, a practice where you put your ideal week onto paper (or screen) using an hourly format. This can be done on paper using a template or an old vertical weekly planner, or on screen via…
10 Weeks to Go! It was a really good week of training despite call. Except for the fact that I failed to do any strength. Will get back on that this week! I am in a “hill block” with weekly hill workouts and without…
OMG WHAT A WEEK. Converging on a single week, the past ~5 days included: So that was really a lot at once and while I endured, I didn’t really enjoy it. But maybe it’s good that life has these valleys because today I feel…
By Request: What does “CALL” mean? I’ve written a lot about call over the years – perhaps sometimes to my detriment. Not everyone likes to acknowledge the reality that doctors get tired and are still expected to work through sleep deprivation. Things have definitely…
It’s a call week! I am hoping I can continue the attitude I had in January — that was one of the busiest weeks I can remember but I did really well managing my energy and handling things calmly. I did not resort to…
Daily planning page as outside observer . . . I open with a discussion of the idea of planner page as “outside observer” and how seeing the day laid out in physical form for me can help alleviate stress and provide a sort of…
Training for Bayshore Marathon: 11 Weeks to Go Somehow the marathon is not all that far away anymore! It was a good week of training. Not a lot of speedwork — my plan doesn’t have much until ~7-8 weeks out from the race, it…
1- Freakonomics: “Are You Caught in a Social Media Trap”? This isn’t entirely what it sounds like but rather the concept that there are products that people wish didn’t exist but buy/use anyway (social media being one example). Interesting! I can think of some…
I have participants in Best Laid Plans Academy and Planning by Season complete an ideal week template. My favorite layout is a vertical weekly, similar to what is in the weekly pages of the Hobonichi Cousin (or a Hemlock & Oak, Sterling Ink, Wonderland,…
It’s a Monday (as I type this) and I’m feeling pretty motivated. Maybe it’s spring energy!? We had a packed weekend — there were activities for every kid plus a soccer tournament which means 3 games over the course of Fri / Sat /…