FOCUS & SMART LISTS... I have trouble focusing when I'm in the grocery store and sometimes fail to reach my goal of getting the best, freshest, most healthy foods in a minimal amount of time, and that suits the recipes I have in mind for the week. Blending all of these criteria sometimes becomes a bit of a challenge. I have tried using my tablet to enter recipes and shopping lists. I've tried my smartphone, entering list after list, a list for Costco, a "sale" list, a list for the regular grocery store, a list for the Whole Foods Market, my amazon list. The trouble begins when I have to stop to log into my phone, pull up the list. Do you ever have to look in your lists for your "list"? I log in, again, go to look at the list, ah Avacados, organic spinach, onions. "let's see get these put in cart", look back at list and it has gone blank, have to log in again. hmmm maybe I should check into the setting to see how to make the screen stay up longer. At this point I am standing in the middle of the grocery store, stopped, elbows on the cart handles, focused yet again looking at my phone. After my long and dark foray into the phone's settings, and have determined I need bandaids for my blistered fingers and botox for my furrowed brow, I give up!!! (Where are your kids when you need them to figure out stuff on your phone I ask you?) Now I'm back at square one. "Hmmm I've checked off Avacados, Organic Spinach and Onions. Where to next?" Well, 30 minutes have gone by and I'm still in produce, which is at the front door of the grocery store. If anyone else has this issue, then I'll feel ok about it!!
What I found at the end of the day is that I do better with hand written "stickie" lists. I have bought a daily planner, YES a DAILY PLANNER! It is made of paper. Inspired by the show
Kelsey's Essentials. The one I chose was The Law of Attraction Planner. Along with personal guidance to get on a higher vibrational plane with the universe, it has many blank pages for notes and, you guessed it, shopping lists. So here's what my little lists look like. I've got stickies for when I cook Italian, Mexican, Asian, vege medley ideas. All the ingredients I need for my favorite salads. (Cobb Salad of course). And this works for me. I don't have to fool with my phone, which in addition to having to log in to open it every time, I need two hands to look at, and only open to the page with my perfunctory stickie and there you go. So I'm creating stickie's for everything, the pharmacy, vitamin lists, sale lists, in perfect harmony with the universe!!
Get this planner here!!! Love it and it refocuses me every day on the inside and at the grocery store !!
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