hey there everybody and welcome to this video on my top 15 plus one bonus
time savings tips i'm your host dr donnelly snipes
number one menus and meal prep when i sat down and i looked at where i spent a lot of my time
it was deciding what to eat deciding what to make figuring out if i had all the ingredients
making it and cleaning up after it if you have a set of menus whether it's
the same thing you eat the same thing every week which i probably would get bored with
or you have a month or two month menu that you use in rotation having a menu can help
save you from some of that time where you're debating and again trying to figure out if
you've got all the ingredients because you can do your shopping off of your menu
meal prep i've talked about before you've got your menu you know what you're going to eat this week
so you can pre-prepare the majority of the things one day so you're making all the dishes
dirty only one time and then when it comes time to actually make the meals throughout the week
you can just put everything together on people's plate or in one casserole dish or whatever it is
and heat it up so you don't have that ginormous mess that you've got to clean up every single
night so that can be really helpful one dish meals can be super helpful especially when my kids were
little one-dish meals casseroles slow cooker meals those tended to be a staple in our household and
you can do a modified one-dish meal where you make slow cooker meal and then you have rice or
pasta or something that you pre-prepared that you can serve with it so you can do a little bit of
monkeying around here but again it saves a lot of time having to clean up
multiple cooking dishes and ovens and all that stuff you can make calls while cooking if you
know that you have to make some call and you're going to end up being on hold forever whether
it's to your insurance company or well often it's the insurance company for some reason
you can make that call while you're cooking and put it on speaker then when you finally get off
eternal hold it's easy to get your question answered or get whatever it is resolved and
then go back to cooking but you weren't just sitting there twiddling your thumbs for 45 minutes
while you listen to their very crappy music fridge lists this is really helpful especially if there
are multiple people living in your household we have a whiteboard on our refrigerator
and when people run out of something they put it on the whiteboard so i know what to get at the
store or i know what to put on the shopping list and order to have delivered to us in the video on
prioritization i talked a lot about click and pull we spend an inordinate amount of time shopping
going through stores waiting in lines blah blah blah click and pull is a godsend in terms of
time saving have your order at whatever store you go to your grocery store or where where
wherever and keep that running list you can modify that list as you need it order stuff pay for it
online you know that takes about a tenth of the time as it takes to go and do all the shopping
yourself show up and they bring your stuff out to you how awesome is that it also keeps you
from getting distracted from other shiny things that might attract your attention in the store
run all your errands on the same day it saves all the time getting from your house to the store
or to where all the stores are and it tends to keep you more focused
pre-select outfits for work or the gym or both for the week i have my work clothes
on a hanger and then i put my gym clothes in a cloth bag that i hang
around the hanger so i know that i've got both sets of clothes for that day however
affording seven pairs of good gym shoes that would be really expensive so i only have one
pair of really good gym shoes i do have one pair of cheapy gym shoes that i keep in the car
just in case i forget my shoes but we'll get to that in a minute
but pre-selecting these outfits again saves me time from having to sit there and mull what should
i wear what should i wear i've got seven things to choose from and i just pull it out and i go
when i make those selections i've already looked at the weather determined whether i need long
sleeves or short sleeves or or what have you don't have to do that every single day if you do it once
make lists i love lists my husband will tell you i love lists packing lists i have a list in my
briefcase i have a list in my gym bag i have a list when i go shopping it saves you a lot of
time instead of thinking about oh what do i need to pack do i have everything just go through your
checklist really fast same thing with to-do lists if you're not one of those people who
schedules everything in having a to-do list that you can look at can help you stay focused i have a
daily to-do list but then i also have an ongoing list of things that need to be done at work and
around the farm that when i have free time when i don't have something scheduled in i
can look at it and go oh yeah i've got an extra 30 minutes i can just go ahead and do that right now
have an email or so and or social media blackout time
email i check it when i get to the office in the morning and sometimes i check it before i
leave the office in the afternoon i do not check it throughout the day if i check it
throughout the day then i get sidetracked with other things and it makes me much less efficient
so around my office they know that i will check my email first thing in the morning but if you
don't have something to me by first thing in the morning you got to reach me by other means if it's
urgent i also do not go on social media except for to do posts that i've got to do for work
during the work day i just i know that if i do that then i may get sucked in and i will lose
a lot of time during my work day i have a blackout and that includes youtube
dumping ground i don't know what else to call it some people have a foyer some people have
a mud room i encourage you to have a place that you put your purse your briefcase your
gym bag your backpack whatever it is that has the stuff that you need for the day
leave it there so you know in the morning that your your purse and your keys and what have you
are all there in that dumping ground instead of having to run around the house and going
did anybody see my briefcase did anybody see my backpack or whatever it is that you're looking for
please remember to like subscribe and share it really helps
another tip i mentioned the shoes earlier have spare keys around just in case you do misplace
those keys because without our keys a lot of times it's hard to actually get to those things
like our job that we need to do and it can be very stressful and that just causes you to dump
all kinds of cortisol and adrenaline unnecessarily if you're rushing around the house trying to find
your keys because you got a 8 am meeting glasses if you wear glasses i have my current prescription
glasses and then i have what i call my backup glasses and those are my last prescription my
vision hasn't changed that much it's changed a little bit but it hasn't changed that much
so i can use those as my backup glasses i keep those at work if i forget my good glasses at the
house which happens then i have my backup glasses at work that will at least get me through the day
and shoes especially workout shoes most of the time you're walking out the door to go to work
you got your work shoes on but it can work the same way if you go to the gym first having a
pair of dress shoes in your car that you can put on in case you forget your proper shoes if you
forget your tennis shoes have some cheapy tennis shoes in in the car if you forget your dress shoes
have some cheapy dress shoes in the car yeah they're probably not your favorite but it's a
whole lot better to have a cheap pair of dress shoes on with your business suit than sneakers
so and you feel better about yourself if your outfit is at least you know in the same ballpark
telehealth think about how much time and 13 mobile vets they kind of go together think about how
much time you spend sitting waiting in doctor's offices and veterinarians offices a lot of time
sometimes things need to be taken care of but if you establish yourself
with a particular doctor then telehealth can be very helpful some of those services that claim
to be telehealth you call them and you want them to look at this freckle or you've got this concern
and pretty much they say yeah you don't need to go to the emergency room but i'm not going to
diagnose you you need to see your primary care and you're like well what was the point of that
but if you get set up with a primary care doctor that does do telehealth then a lot of times it's
a whole lot more effective because you can call them and say hey doc this freckle i showed you
when i was in at my um annual checkup can you take a look if i send you a picture of it can
you take a look at it again and they can do it so you don't have to go in and wait in their
waiting room you can be putzing around until they call you for your telehealth appointment
mobile vets are similar instead of having to go home and get fido and get phyto all
stressed out and drive there and wait and wait and wait mobile vets come to your house there
are so many veterinarians in a lot of places i know our place is is that way that mobile vets
really don't charge that much more if any more than doing a standard in office visit
and that can be a great option for saving you time at the farm obviously we have a vet that comes out
to do our large animals but i've always preferred to have a mobile vet to come out and do our small
animals as well because it keeps them from getting exposed to other sick animals it makes
it a lot less stressful for them because they don't have to get in the car and go to the vet
there's just a lot of benefits to it but time saving is a big one
have one set of dishes that everybody uses and i mean one set of dishes for every person
this means that after breakfast you have to wash your silverware your plate or bowl
and your cup so you have something ready for lunch and if each person only has one set of dishes
then they get in a habit of that what i like to do at our house is we have a two chamber sink
i have at the beginning of the meal i run hot water and soap in one and i have rinse water
in the other one so when people are finished eating they go to the sink they wipe off their
their dish or they let the dog clean it and then then they wash it in the soapy
water they rinse it in the rinsed water and they put it in the dish dish drainer and
it's done super easy takes each person maybe a minute and a half and it just keeps things
organized and running well this can be done even if you've got smaller kids in your house obviously
my kids are both adults now but even little kids five six seven years old are pretty capable of
wiping off their own dishes wipe down your car after a good rain not only does this save money
but it also saves a lot of time in my opinion i mean you can go to some of those car wash places
but after a good rain you know i let god do the hard work and i just go out and i wipe my car down
it keeps it looking good enough uh for me i'm not one of those people who is a supercar fanatic i
just don't want to have people be able to write things on my car because it's so filthy dirty
and a bonus i save this for the last one because there's probably going to be some snarky comments
but you can shower with your dog we have uh three dogs now but giving them a bath oh my
gosh that can make a mess and putting them in the tub they get all stressed out they try to jump
out it's just it's kind of crazy and i don't like giving them a bath outside because i hate using
that really cold hose on them i just i feel bad so you can bring them into the shower with you a lot
of times they're a lot less stressed if you're standing there with them if you're grossed out
by that you can always put on a bathing suit when you are taking your shower with your dog but it is
a great way if you're already running the shower water you've already got the bathroom heated up
you've already got the towels out so you might as well just get both of you clean and smelling fresh