One of my favorite podcasts is The Lazy Genius Podcast with Kendra Adachi. Listening to her podcast over the last 15 months or so has helped me “lazy genius” several things in my/our life that has made things easier. She has several Lazy Genius principles (so helpful), but one of the most popular ones is Decide Once.
It’s a great rule in that your brain makes the decision ONE TIME and then you never have to mess with it again. Recently I listened to her share a number of her family’s Decide Once decisions and so I wanted to share some of ours.
1. Wednesday evening’s dinner is Trader Joe’s Turkey Burgers & chips/guac one week and Pizza Chef pepperoni pizza the alternating week. Then it repeats…all year long.
2. Every time I travel to Nashville I go to Newk’s the day before & get a Pimento Cheese sandwich and bbq chips from Grab & Go. That’s the only time I let myself get that guilty pleasure meal. There isn’t an easy place (nor desirable) to stop to get food that doesn’t take forever between here and Nashville, so that takes care of the problem and gets me there as fast as possible!
3. At the beginning of every month I choose the essential oil that I’m going to diffuse all month long in the living room diffuser. That way I don’t have to keep a stash of oils in there, but my diffuser runs everyday like I want it to. Only the one oil I’m diffusing has to be in there.
4. Tuesday is laundry day for clothes. Towels are done on an as-needed basis, but all clothes that need to be washed better be in that hamper Tuesday morning or it’s going to be a week before they get washed. The only time that changes is for vacation. This also means that everything is going to be folded and put away on Tuesday as well. Don't ask about ironing...I don't do that.
5. I love to send what I call “Happy Mail” to my active customers. I had already set the goal of sending at least one time to every customer this year, not just my personally enrolled. In the past I’ve sent whatever has my eye at the time, but at the beginning of this year I decided what I was going to send and that’s what everyone is getting this year. It’s made it SO simple & I’m not confused on what each person got.
Now there are obviously times when a Decide Once thing has run its course or a season in life has changed when that’s not needed anymore. One example of this is…for about 3 years our family ate Sunday lunch at the same place every week. You could find us there if we were in town and eating lunch out, which was most every week. Did some family members complain and tire of that after a while? Yes. However, it cured the “where are we going to eat” question after church each week and the complaints and tears that followed. It was a GREAT Decide Once decision even before I knew about the principle.
So, do you have some Decide Once decisions you all follow in your home or are you going to put some into practice? I would love to hear either way!
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