when you get organized it creates like this domino effect in your life you become more efficient in
everything that you do so you get more done in your days and your weeks and because of that
you're more inspired and you're more creative because you're more inside and creative you have
more ideas because you have more time you act on more ideas and so on and so forth in this video i
want to talk about the art of getting organized with mison plus i want to give you a bunch of
really actionable ideas that you can take and apply to your own life so misonpas is a french
phrase that means put in place and it's used by chefs all around the world it's a philosophy but
it's also a system you can both have museum plus and you can practice nissan plus to be a good chef
you have to be incredibly organized and that is why good chefs practice museum plus and what chefs
often find is that when they practice museum plaza in the kitchen they also become more organized in
their day-to-day life because nissan plus is so focused and also around mindset and principles
that you can really embrace in any area of your life they find that it filters out into all of the
areas of their life the first mindset that those who practice misonplas embrace is that planning
saves time a quote that is quite popular says for every minute spent in organizing an hour is earned
and the world of mise en place really took that and they ran with it there are two key
differences in the way that you would approach planning when you're practicing nison plaz
as opposed to regular planning firstly you are completely and totally honest with your time
secondly your plan always contains a sequence of when things are done and also breaks things
down into sub steps when you talk to people and they say that they're bad at planning they just
can't get planning to work for them one of the key reasons is because they're being really dishonest
with how long things are going to take them to get done in my video on why your productivity
systems aren't working i talk about this in a bit more detail i'll have that linked down below as
well as on the screen but the two reasons that people estimate their time so poorly is because
firstly they don't have any historical data they have no idea how long it's taken them in the past
to get something done therefore they have no idea how long it'll take them to get done now
and secondly because they don't account for the unexpected they expect every single day to be
super smooth and so there'd be no interruptions and of course when you have that kind of mindset
you're gonna be filling your planner to the brim you're expecting the absolute most from yourself
the two remedies to becoming more honest with your time are firstly tracking your time so creating
that historical data how long do you take to get your average stuff done and secondly give yourself
ranges so if there's a task that sometimes takes 10 minutes sometimes takes 40 minutes you know
that range and you plan for the upper end of the range and to account for unexpected build in space
in your plan do not fill every second of your time block with tasks the next nissan plus mindset to
embrace is that if a task is 90 finished it's as good as 0 finished this one hit me really hard
when i first read it when it comes to the kitchen dishes are really all or nothing you can't serve
a dish without the sauce if it's not 100 done it is a worthless dish rather than jumping from
one action to another chefs start something and then they complete it in full if you are someone
who often jumps from task to task you know how it feels to have like a build-up of unfinished
items just sitting in the back of your mind waiting to be finished to practice museum plus
create a delivery mentality sometimes you will not be able to finish a task and in that case
still maintain that delivery mentality but think about how you can make it as easy as possible
for yourself to go back to that task because once a task is dropped we often underestimate
how much energy it's going to take to get back to it if you don't finish your craft project in time
for dinner put all of your craft stuff in one place in a container so it's easy to take out
and get back to it if you don't finish writing a document in notion on time favorite the page
so that you can get back to it really easily if you feel totally exhausted you can't finish your
design book a focus mate session so that you're accountable to get back to it tomorrow where you
can build a delivery mentality this video is based on the book the life-changing power of
mise-en-place it's a book that i really enjoyed and i also have all of the books that i've enjoyed
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michelleb to get 10 off of your first purchase the next myth and plus mindset to embrace is to
design your environment to make your life easier everything you need to have a home and everything
that you need should be accessible in the kitchen this means that ingredients are close by and
they're arranged in order tools are arranged in a way that makes cooking easy and fast chefs
have a lot of checklists they don't have to keep everything in their head at home or at work this
means organizing things to remove any resistance and this can be digitally and it can be physically
to remove resistance you might move something so that it's closer to you for example moving
your daily planner really close to you so that it's more likely that you'll plan your tomorrow
you might create checklist to make things easier so if you have a weekly reset that you do you have
a little checklist that guides you through it it means creating templates that guide you through
things that you do over and over again so for me i have a video script template and it means creating
software automations that make whatever you do easier for example i have a software automation
that opens up all of the things that i need like google calendar as well as notion at 5 am also
in the morning so that my computer is ready to go when i sit down to embrace this mindset commit to
removing any friction in your work the next myself mindset is a messy station equals a messy mind and
a clean station equals a clean mind chefs have to clean their space because if they don't it can be
dangerous but they also clean their space because in a way it also helps them to clear their mind
if you work in mess you lose time if it takes you 10 minutes to find a document that you saved
last week you lose time it takes you five minutes to find that form that you need to complete
you lose time and not just within those five minutes but also within the task switching from
looking for the item to completing the item in work clean the life changing power of new
zealand plus one of my favorite examples that the author talks about is how yoga teachers come back
to a neutral position between each exercise and he recommends that you should do the same thing
when you're working between each task activity or even set of activities come back to a neutral
position by wiping your slate clean and by slate that might mean wiping your desk clean putting
things in order or it could also mean minimizing everything on your computer or exiting out of
everything on your computer the next principle that you can embrace in museum plus is that
starting is a shortcut obviously when you are cooking there are some things that need to be done
before others in the world of cooking you need to make sure that you put the rice on early so that
it's good to go when you plate a dish putting the rice on doesn't take a very long time but if it
isn't done it mucks everything up you need to get the ball rolling by putting the rice on first so
to translate that to life outside of cooking it might be that of a morning you need to put on the
washing otherwise you won't have any clean clothes tomorrow it doesn't take long but if i don't do it
and then i wake up tomorrow morning and i have nothing to wear i'm going to be distressed a
work example is that of a morning i might need to send a video to a sponsor for a review that takes
me under five minutes doesn't seem like a big task but if i don't do it i'm gonna be very distressed
when my upload day rolls around and i don't have anything to upload because my video hasn't been
approved yet and we all have tasks like that tasks that you need to do in order to keep processes
rolling or to keep other people moving it might be turning something on writing a very quick reply
doing a quick errand but whatever it is it's something that if you put it off it will delay
other people or it will delay important processes the author of work clean calls these tasks process
tasks i call them motion tasks or unblockers because they're either about creating motion
by kicking off a task or maintaining motion by keeping a task going and they're often about
unblocking something else if you've recently set up productivity routines or you've always had
productivity routines set up but you don't feel like you're using them to their fullest potential
or they just haven't really worked for you this is the video for you it's going to be linked on the
screen as well as down below i appreciate you so very much and i will see you soon