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Best Laid Plans

BLP Episode #190: The Ideal Week

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…

March 18, 2024
Fitness

Weekly Workouts: 10 Weeks Out

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…

March 17, 2024
life

Clouds Parting

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…

March 16, 2024
Work

By Request: What is Call, Anyway?

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…

March 13, 2024
Work

(My Personal) Rules for Call

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…

March 12, 2024
Best Laid Plans

BLP Episode #189: Diving into Quintile 2!

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…

March 11, 2024
Fitness

Weekly Workouts

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…

March 10, 2024
life Parenting

5 on a Friday: Challenges + Choices Edition

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…

March 8, 2024
Habits

Ideal Week

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,…

March 7, 2024
life

Back At It! Spring energy or something . . .

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 /…

March 5, 2024