Operation Organised

Anything helps

Well after my big reveal that I am not actually Super Girl (I know, it came as quite a shock to me, too), I have been getting down and dirty with getting back to the basics of organising myself for Round 1.

I set myself up for Round 4 with some stuff that worked for me, so I decided to do similar things now to get myself back on track.  There’s nothing earth shatteringly new or any dramatically invented tricks of the trade here.  It’s just plain old basic stuff, Mish/12WBT advised stuff, things that have worked for me stuff, and plain common sense stuff.  Essentially, the stuff that works. :)

Here’s what I did and here’s my plan of attack:

Mish and The Magic 8

My first step was to do my Pre-season tasks.  There’s a reason Mish puts these out, and it’s not to occupy us until the round starts.  Each one is so important.  I know that it’s probably no coincidence that the rounds where I haven’t done as well, I haven’t done the Pre-season tasks…  The other night I got home from boot camp, I cooked dinner, I sat down, and I watched each video - even for the tasks I'd already completed out of habit.  I did each task.  And I ticked each one off.  With 'military precision.' ;)  I then caught up on Mish’s Week 1 and Week 2 videos and Snip Tip videos.  Done, done, and inspired. 

This is my 'Say it out loud' commitment that I put up all over the place, on social media and printed it out for home once I'd done it.  Each thing is what I commit to trying to achieve.  These feed up into my goals:

My commitment to myself, my friends, my family, Mish, 12WBT, my trainers, my 30+ crew, my HBW gals, my QLD crew, my bootcampers, my 12WBTers and my other crews.

 

Dear Diary

I know this is one of the Pre-Season tasks, but it deserves its own category: Diarising and Organising.  This is what I’ve been missing!  My calendar and To Do list are usually my 3^rd and 4^th arms.  They are these amazing vehicles that keep me on track.  When these aren’t up to date, I’m left feeling pretty sick and I can more easily screw my life up like I've done recently.  So this week I got reacquainted with my old friends Outlook and ToDo (an iPhone app by Appigo).

I’VE MISSED THIS!  I can not describe how much better this instantly made me feel.  Training days, rest days, red flag days, meal planning days, grocery shopping days, weigh in days, Mish video days, everything - and of course, --- the rest of my life --- all of it is updated and in my calendar.  And I started afresh with a new To Do list that I am still rebuilding.  2012’s list has been put to bed.  2013 is the list I now go by :)

Inspiration surrounds...

My Round 1 inspiration board

In a quest to continue to be surrounded only by positive and inspiring stuff, I did a few things:

My inspiration wall / wall that makes me smile is growing!

• I did my Inspiration Board last week for the weekly challenge.
• I spent some time updating my physical inspiration wall and surrounding myself with other reminders around my apartment of my goals and a few pick me ups.  When I found myself sticky taping some inspiration in my pantry I realised I was getting a bit over the top...but it's not hurting anyone and I am happy to try anything that can inspire me and keep me going.  So I put more up ;)
• I wrote on my mirror with lipstick (see pic above) - a great idea I've seen others do in the past.  Again, it's worth trying anything!

#getinspired

Bring on the apocalypse

Well actually, please DON'T, but I feel like I could face one if I had to, because I just cooked 78 meals!  My freezer would be so good in an emergency right now.

It took me a couple of nights but it is going to save me SO much time. At the start of Round 4 I did a big cook up and the meals that I prepared and froze ended up lasting me the entire round, so I think this weeks effort will do the same!  I cooked/prepared 78 meals: 9 different 12WBT recipes.

The coolest thing with this is I worked out how much it cost me for all of these meals.  My groceries cost $159.20.  This works out to be less than $2.04 per meal because the groceries included my snacks for next week.  How cheap is that?  And this cost was including having to replenish heaps of stuff that I would usually have in my fridge/freezer as I had to empty the contents a couple of weeks ago from the QLD floods.  It's very frustrating having to re-buy all of the little jars that are usually just staples of any fridge.  So that is less than $2 a meal including having to buy everything from scratch!  Cheapest takeaway ever.

78 meals ready to go!

My last day at my work was Friday - so until something comes through, I am officially unemployed.  So I may be barefoot and broke but I at least I will have good nutrition! ;)

I'm not usually this anal, I promise.  I'm just riding with it while it lasts ;)

Aim for the moon

Ahhhh.  GOALS.
So many goals.
I was drowning in the mere thought of wanting to do so much, let alone achieving them!  And between you and me, some of them stopped interesting me.  Then why try and do them?  So I took a tip from a beautiful friend of mine, De.  She said recently, about goals: "Does it take your breath away?"
That's all I needed to remember.  Now, each of my goals does take my breath away.
 
Streamlined.
One list.
Flexible.
I may not make them all.
Some are huge and potentially unattainable.
But you've gotta aim for the moon...
 

I now have goals, challenges and tasks.  Goals take my breath away.  Challenges are things to push my own boundaries.  Tasks are goals that don't take my breath away but I want to get done. :)

My challenges: Like last round, I have made a personal challenge for myself for each week of this round.  Kind of like a weekly mini milestone.  I'm dubbing this list: "Do all the running events" because that seems to be what I'm focussing on this round.  Below is also my rejigged mini plan - just a list of basic stuff that I try to follow to keep me on track to achieve my bigger goals.

Weekly challenges AKA #doalltherunningevents

Week 1	Get organised
Week 2	Get organised
Week 3	Swim training AKA Operation Get Back In The Water
	Bribie Tri
	32km walk for my 32nd birthday
Week 4	International Women's Day Fun Run
	Be under 100kg
	Start dancing
	Get back to parkrun
Week 5	Mooloolaba Twilight Run - 5km in 0:37:30
Week 6	Twilight Running Festival - 10km
Week 7	See the fireflies / glow worms in the Gold Coast Hinterland
Week 8	Triathlon Pink Brisbane & Pink 5km run
Week 9	Zombie Run
	Colour Run
Week 10	Run 10km in 1:15:00
Week 11	Climb/walk Mt Coot-tha loop via road
Week 12	Run 12km in 1:30:00
	Significantly reduce Diet Coke

 
Mini plan

Daily	Stick to nutrition plan
Daily	Stick to training plan
Daily	Track all food
Daily	Track all exercise
Daily	Drink 4L water a day & 1L per hour of exercise
Weekly	Do the weekly challenge
Weekly	Go through nutrition plans / plan meals / shop
Weekly	Watch all of Mish's videos
Monthly	Reassess goals
Monthly	Do a cook up if needed

 

Next weeks goal weight reminders.  I can't escape it!

The most important thing in this list

I have to now put my head down and bum up.  Miss All or Nothing here can have her extremes: be behind in everything and self sabotage, or do all the great things of a highly organised person and make it look pretty cool on a blog post.  But the latter is just as effective as the non-taken multivitamins sitting on my kitchen bench; if I don't actually do the work that I've now set myself up for.  It's awesome to have plans but now comes the hard bit.

It's time to put my head down, my bum up, and work my backside off to get to my goals.  This whole thing isn't easy!  But to put it completely simply:

I love the journey. 
And I want to reach my goals.

And that's why I do it.

THIS

Basil - this is as green thumb as I get

One of my fave meals: Chicken Parmigiana

This isn't an organise-y pic, but I fit into an old denim skirt I used to love yesterday and I thought that was a pretty cool thing to share :)

My Top 20 prize arrived, so exciting!  Including a very cool fitbit!  The box was so big I took a photo!

The back of my front door.  The last thing I see when I leave the house each day.  The above pink frame has a quote: "What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?"