I’m a college teacher, and this is key for teaching prep. It can always expand to fit the time you give it. It took me years to figure that out but after thirty years I now set limits.
This works well for meal planning too; if I have lettuce, mozzarella, and peppers to use up, it helps me decide what to make next week (stuffed peppers with salad).
Love this! Financial restraint / limitation can be really impactful too. My MIL loves to garden but when my FIL retired they had to look very closely at their budget (including the garden budget). The process of being really deliberate about where those precious dollars could go was a new way to creatively plan and reinvigorate something she loved.
I have really grown to enjoy curated lists for things. Like you, we did a major home renovation (a rebuild for us really) and I learned quickly that having the whole internet worth of choices is way too overwhelming. I remember typing bathroom mirror into Wayfair to browse around and it gave me something like 2000 results. That's not really helpful.
I have also done this with meal planning where I get several recipe websites' weekly email and having a few suggested recipes makes it easier than going to the main page and having hundreds of choices.
I’m a college teacher, and this is key for teaching prep. It can always expand to fit the time you give it. It took me years to figure that out but after thirty years I now set limits.
This works well for meal planning too; if I have lettuce, mozzarella, and peppers to use up, it helps me decide what to make next week (stuffed peppers with salad).
Love this! Financial restraint / limitation can be really impactful too. My MIL loves to garden but when my FIL retired they had to look very closely at their budget (including the garden budget). The process of being really deliberate about where those precious dollars could go was a new way to creatively plan and reinvigorate something she loved.
I have really grown to enjoy curated lists for things. Like you, we did a major home renovation (a rebuild for us really) and I learned quickly that having the whole internet worth of choices is way too overwhelming. I remember typing bathroom mirror into Wayfair to browse around and it gave me something like 2000 results. That's not really helpful.
I have also done this with meal planning where I get several recipe websites' weekly email and having a few suggested recipes makes it easier than going to the main page and having hundreds of choices.