{"id":2200,"date":"2016-02-10T19:41:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T19:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2016-02-10T19:41:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T19:41:12","slug":"plan-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/plan-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve decided you need to rework your game plan \u2026 but how?<\/p>\n

I kissed my little guy goodnight and he immediately asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s the plan tomorrow?\u201d I listed the errands, appointments and activities I had planned for the next day. Satisfied with my detail-rich explanation he smiled and drifted off to sleep. I had to smile too because, like me, my children have found comfort in a routine, a schedule: a plan.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have a plan in hopes of manipulating and controlling each moment of our day. We all adapt planning strategies that fit who we are. I have a plan because if I don\u2019t, the projects I need to conquer will take priority over the people in my life.<\/p>\n

I split my chores up over certain days of the week and include a day to make up any ground I\u2019ve lost along the way. This kind of planning comes much easier to some personalities than others. Giving a time and a place to the items on my to-do list helps me relax and enjoy the people in my life.<\/p>\n

Projects:<\/b> Make a list of the projects\/tasks\/errands that face you during the week. If planning for the week is too much, take it one day at a time. Writing everything down helps our brains let them go \u2014 we don\u2019t have the pressure of remembering each detail all day long. Some projects might include grocery shopping, vacuuming, laundry, preparing meals for the next day, etc.<\/p>\n

Priority:<\/b> Once your list is made, prioritize each item. Remember that people are more important than projects. Sometimes we\u2019ll be able to get all the laundry put away. Some days the laundry will sit in a pile. Having a perfectly clean home is not the goal of this project. Instead we strive to be mothers with a plan that prioritizes our projects and helps us make time for the precious people in our lives. If you are out of the basics (bread, milk, juice) maybe the grocery store is a first priority for you. If piles of dishes or laundry make you feel crazy, make sure you start the laundry when you\u2019ll have time to put everything away.<\/p>\n

Plan:<\/b> Make sure each project is assigned a specific time and place in your day. The day can get away from us quickly. Unless we have a time and place for each activity, those activities can elude us too. It\u2019s amazing what we can accomplish when we know what our goal is for that short amount of time. Whether we knock out a task while the kids are napping or we partner with our kids to have fun dusting the furniture, we want each project assigned to a specific place in our day.<\/p>\n

Each week it will become clearer what projects really are a priority, how many can be accomplished in the amount of time you have and which ones need to wait. When we give our projects a place and priority, we show our families that our \u201cplan\u201d is to enjoy each moment with\u00a0them.<\/p>\n

Kasey Johnson enjoys speaking to MOPS groups across the U.S. and spending time with her three boys and husband in Olathe, Kansas. She\u2019s the author of <\/i>7 Ways to Be a S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Mom (Beacon Hill Press, 2010). Visit her <\/i>at smarter-moms.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Hello-Dearest-Front-Cover_winter2016\"This originally appeared in an archived issue of\u00a0Hello, Dearest<\/em>. If you didn\u2019t get a copy and would like your own, you can\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to get\u00a0Hello, Dearest<\/em>\u00a0in your mailbox every season. If you subscribe, forward your receipt to\u00a0magazines@mops.org<\/a>\u00a0and we\u2019ll shoot a copy of the current issue in the mail to you for free \u2026 just because we like you.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve decided you need to rework your game plan \u2026 but how? I kissed my little guy goodnight and he immediately asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s the plan tomorrow?\u201d I listed the errands, appointments and activities I had planned for the next day. Satisfied with my detail-rich explanation he smiled and drifted off to sleep. I had to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":2210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[104,195,188,129,105,189,257],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-advice","tag-busyness","tag-darling","tag-finances","tag-get-organized","tag-hello","tag-we-love"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}