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Today's tip is that when you do your weekly planning, think about your wishes for the week and ask other people for their wishes too.
That creates a lot of positive buy-in for the week and may lead everyone to be happier.
Today's tip was inspired by Reshma Shah, a pediatrician who focuses on food and family eating patterns.
When Sarah Hart Unger interviewed Dr. Shaw for our Best of Both Worlds podcast, she said that when she is planning her meals, she invites her kids to give me your wishes for the week.
Then she can build their requests, within reason, into the menu plan.
I really like this idea.
Even if you are doing the meal planning, you don't have to come up with everything all by yourself.
If other people share their wishes, they are more likely to get a meal they like.
And if you are lucky, there might be fewer complaints, since everyone had a voice in the menu.
Dr Shah focuses on wishes for the week in relation to food, but it could also be wise to ask yourself and anybody you plan for about wishes for the week more broadly.
As you are getting to do your weekly planning, You might realize that you'd like to go see a particular exhibit at an art museum.
Your kids might like to go ice skating.
Your partner might want to sit by the fire pit with you one night after your kids go to bed.
Or maybe your wish for the week is more practical.
You might want to cook and freeze a bunch of meals to make things easier for your future self during an upcoming busy season at work.
You could also ask about wishes for the week when you are headed into a vacation week.
That way you can build people's wishes into your travel plans.
There's magic in Dr. Shah's phrasing of wishes for the week.
It creates a sense of possibility, perhaps even delight.
It elicits more smiles and anticipation than just, what do you want to do?
Or what do you want for dinner?
I can tell you firsthand that both of those are likely to be met with the unhelpful response of I don't know, or a general claim that people want to do nothing.
So when you plan the coming week, consider asking yourself and perhaps others in your household about their wishes for the week.
Whatever the wishes, thinking about them in advance lets you plan to make your wishes and other people's wishes come true.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
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