Rich Girls Meal Prep

In teacher training I learned an important lesson. If we want students to buy into what we're teaching we have to meet them where they're at.

I'm gonna do it. I'll put together a meal prep transition plan for the Trump!

I guess off to McDonalds we go???

How nonsensical videos get you to watch and rewatch.

Curiosity
Anticipation
Sensory Pleasure (brain tingle)

How nonfoods get you to eat them again and again.

Effective food ads use these same hooks, curiosity, anticipation, reward.

Have you thought about your food choices. Are they your choices???

I'm telling you! Meal prep.

Decision fatigue is a real thing. Executive functioning research shows that decisions drain cognitive energy... and as a result decisions are difficult especially later in the day. Meal prep removes low-value decisions so your brain can focus on the big stuff... like being present for your loved ones!

RGMP LAW: WILLPOWER IS FINITE
RGMP LAW: DECISION IS ACTION (it uses up finite cognitive energy)

Goal ~> Promise ~> Environment ~> Discipline ~> Keep Promise ~> Self-trust ~> Confidence ~> Goal reached ~> Aim for bigger goal ~> Promise ~> on and on...

Start with meal prep!

During my recent road trip, I walked around Vanderbilt University.

I notice that there is so much power in our surroundings that I have no problem trusting that the longer we stay within the confines of just one, our free will tends towards zero and after long enough we get dangerously close to complete surrender to it.

I go on road trips because the experience frees me.

The more road trips I experience the more I realize how NOT free we are.

This is coming from a girl who lived on one street for 30 years (about to move)

Elaborate on this thought how you will but...

we can use this to our advantage. I found that meal prep, for example, creates an environment of sorts. It confines me and limits autonomy, and sometimes that's a good thing. Take for example the beautiful Victorian Gothic architecture of the this place. How can you resist becoming anything but scholarly, cultured and preppy even. You can't resist.

Who makes more decisions, a teacher or an entrepreneur? I'd love to see a comparison.

When I was a teacher decision fatigue was real.

The last thing I wanted to think about was a healthy dinner.

A smart choice at 5pm after a day of teaching teenagers might be pizza, cookies with red wine (cause red wine = polythenols, obviously). My brain is so clever... it will convince a cardiologist to prescribe pure hydrogenated oil to his patients. It's a master manipulator. At 5 pm every drop of mental energy left is preserved for hunting and gathering (mostly sugar).