Organizing Your Magical Life

Today Magic delves into the importance of organization and its positive impacts on various aspects of life including health, wealth, and weight loss. The episode provides practical tips on food storage, meal planning, supplement management, financial planning, and exercise scheduling. She will share her tips including using glass containers for better food preservation, menu planning for family involvement, and maintaining a list of supplements and medications for emergencies. Organizing your life can build your wealth, too, with the use  of organized savings and debt repayment plans. Tune in to learn how being organized can help you create a magical life.

Transcript

Magic Barclay: 0:42

Welcome back to a Magical Life. I'm your host, magic Barclay, and this month I wanna talk to you about organization. Why is it important? What can it do for your life, particularly your health. In fact, it can help in all three aspects of health, wealth, and weight loss. So let's dive in Quick. Shout out to a show that I watched on Netflix called The Home Edit. Now if you wanna check out these ladies, they are fantastic, and their website is the home edit.com. The reason I'm giving them a shout out is because when they do a home edit, they take into account, say for a pantry, edit healthy lifestyles, and this is something we all need to be doing. So let's start with health. Whether you are taking supplements, medications, whether you are healthy eating, whether you are growing your permaculture garden and it's farm to plate, no matter what you are doing for your health and on what level you need organization. Now, that may mean for food that you do a shop and chop twice a week. So the food is still healthy, but it's cut up. You've got your meal prep done. You may get it done once a week so that you're not buying takeaways while you're at work or on the road or surviving from coffees'cause they're easy to get. You've got fresh produce at hand and ready to go. Now I highly suggest that you store things in glass, and the reason being, when you store things in plastic, they sweat, the plastic can leach into your food. It just makes things go off a lot quicker. Whereas in glass, things stay fresher. Clear glass containers with lockable ball lids helps you see everything you have so you're not buying. carrots for the third time, and then you end up with a whole lot of carrots that you didn't know were there. Now this glass system works for mushrooms as well, keeps'em a lot fresher for your brassicas, keeps them crispy in the stalks. So really I suggest that you invest in some good glass containers for your fridge. Less wastage, less cost, and healthier food available. So there's organizing by shop and chop. There's also organizing by having a good system in your dry stores, in your pantry, and that is rotating stock. Now, when you go to the supermarket, they get taught to do this when they're stacking the shelves. Many of us didn't get taught to do this when stacking our pantry, and that is you have all labels facing out You have things that are more perishable or closer to their use by date at the front. Now, this way, you are rotating your stock again, less waste, less cost, and easier for you to keep up your healthier habits Now. One downfall here. Obviously anything stored in a can should be used minimally, and that is because the canned linings can be very toxic. So you know for sure have your canned soups that your backup stock is, I guess, or canned beans or whatever it is, but use them to a minimum. Now when we come to actually organizing our menu. My family have a menu on the fridge. Once a week midweek, we all go to the fridge and we have a meeting about next week's menu. This helps all of us do our shopping for it. It helps us. Plan, when we're going outside to pick the foods for it, it helps us know what's going on. If I'm late home, someone else can start the cooking. They know the meal that's going to happen. We have recipe books, which are in a very ordered fashion on the bookshelf. So everyone knows that soups and starters will be on the left and mains will be in the middle. And desserts if we are going to cook them, will be on the right hand side. Compilation books will be at the end of that. So, you know, the good old women's weekly books that I've been collecting all my life have their, their places I used to order them in. Brands. So the Women's Weekly books would all be together. The smaller books would all be together. I'd order them by size, but now I order them by the timing that we're going to eat things. So it makes it easy for everyone. When you do your weekly menu, get input from everyone in your household. There is no point, and I learned this the hard way when my kids were little. There is no point in cooking four separate meals every single meal. Now, I had fussy eaters both on the autism spectrum, so someone would only eat white food, someone would only eat green food. You know, someone else would only eat. Food, uh, animal, animal products, you know, that kind of thing. So make sure everyone has input. It's really important for the buy-in so that you can enjoy your meals, support your health, and have some bonus family time. Our dinner meal is always together, and if it's not, it's because I'm out somewhere, but. We try and make sure there's some family time. We do a lunch or something that day instead. So really utilize that family meal time to build bonds, to strengthen bonds, to create that connectivity, to really share that happy time over meals, because that is exactly what meals used to do. It was a time to bring the family together. We've lost that in our convenient lifestyles. You know, we don't spend time with our family all the time, so a meal a day, if you can do it, I highly suggest it. So that's your food Now, medications and supplements, again, rotate your stock. Make sure you are using what is going to expire sooner. Make sure that you have a list. Many people who still see doctors will go doctor shopping, and that doctor doesn't know what you're on. So make sure you have a full list with you of what you take when you take it. Same with your supplements. Now, I ended up in hospital last year and. I have a list of supplements with me at all times in my purse and the timing that I'm taking them, and I'm telling you, that was a heck of a lot easier than me trying to remember all the different things I was doing at the different times of the day at that time to be able to give the hospital my list. Did they know what half of it was? No. Did they need to? No, but they've got a computer. They can look it up. So carry that list with you in case of emergency, but it also helps you be organized, you know, when things are, those little pill cases are great. I sort my supplements once a week. I know what's morning, what's afternoon, what's evening. I move things from one case to a smaller case to carry with me each day. So if I'm out at lunchtime, I know I've gotta take X, Y, Z with me and you know, make it easy for yourself. Same with your medications. Okay? So that's your health now, your wealth. The same thing happens. Believe it or not, you have your everyday savings account and then you can have a maximizer account or a long-term savings account and slip money into that when you can. That's your rainy day fund. Right? Right. It also helps you build your wealth and if you are organized that every single pay, some of that goes into the rainy day fund, you'll be better off in the long run. Same as if you've got a mortgage, you can pay it off sooner. Keep taking extra out. Maybe tighten the, the purse strings, each payday so that you can pay off that. Same with loans. Get rid of those as quickly as you can. Being organized and having a system so that every payday and sometimes you can even automate these things, right, so that every payday that is happening for you will help you. Now, when it comes to weight loss, same thing happens. If you don't know what you are going to be eating, how do you know if it's going to help you with your weight loss journey? I don't take spur of the moment decisions. I've been on the weight loss rollercoaster now for 40 years. I have learned I need to be organized, and if it's not on the plan, it's not going to be eaten. I organize my exercise. I put that into my diary. I block out time. My clients know when they log on to book a session onto my booking system. If it says health, that's my timeout. You can't, you can't book that. It's blocked out and it means I'm usually in the gym somewhere or out on a farm, going on a walk or whatever it is I'm doing that day for my exercise. So you must schedule these things. It really comes down to organization being key. Whether it's your wardrobe, whether it's your pantry, whether it's your dishes, you know, whether it's your car, your car, glove box needs to be organized, whether it's your diary. So that you know what's happening each day. All of this will help you with your health, your wealth, and your weight loss. Now, for any other tips and tricks, please jump onto our Facebook at a Magical Life podcast. Visit us at Holistic Natural Health Australia on Facebook. We're at Holistic Natural Health on Instagram. Please do like review. Subscribe and share this episode. Part two of this is accountability and that will be next month. But please do send us some tips, tricks, comments, questions, anything you have around organization for now, go forth and create your magical life.