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I don’t make very good decisions in the moment.

It’s 5:30 am and I am faced with this decision: “Get up now and have oatmeal, fruit, and yogurt for breakfast, and have some extra prep time for my morning meeting?  Or sleep another 15 minutes, wing it at the meeting, and enjoy a muffin and coffee with cream while I’m there?”  Guess which one I will pick.

It’s 1:30 pm on a busy working day. My decision: “Stop, take a break, go to Whole Foods Salad Bar? Or order Chinese with everybody else in the office and get a few more things done?”  One choice is good for my job–and other people in my office–and one is good for my body. I tend to “sacrifice” the personal benefit for the common good.

5:00 pm, and time to leave work. “Hmmm, I need to de-stress. Should I rush to make Betty’s 6:30 yoga class? Or sit on the sofa and watch ‘House’?” The latter sounds less stressful–but the yoga class would be better at helping me manage stress. But I’m more likely to pick “House.”

I tend to pride myself on my ability to improvise. However, I don’t make the best choices unless I plan ahead.

So, my new challenges:

• Plan meals in advance
• Schedule exercise in advance, with a buddy who expects me to be there
  (E.g., I always get the Y on Tuesdays, when Jill meets me there. I have missed Monday yoga for weeks, though, because nobody is expecting me. Time to make a yoga pal.)
• Nail down a morning routine and “just do it” before I have the time or the mental capacity to talk myself out of it on any given morning.

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