The Eisenhower Principle of Eating
Makes sense! Great practice to follow! Hugs- Debbie
Somewhere, recently, in my web wanderings, I came across the Eisenhower Principle. Legend (or facts) have it that Eisenhower had a chart where he put all of his tasks. He sorted his tasks by urgent (or not) and important (or not). Depending on how they fell into these two categories, he would either handle them himself immediately, delegate them immediately, assign a due date for himself (because they were important but not urgent, or trash the "to do" all together (because they were neither important or urgent). Genius!!
So what would happen if we applied this idea to eating?
What if we had to decide how we were going to eat based on hunger (either we are or we aren't) and how the food tastes (absolutely FANTASTIC or something below that level).
If you are hungry and the food is fantastic -- eat on
If you are hungry but the food is something other than fantastic: eat just enough to get your hunger to go away
If you are not hungry but the food is fantastic: eat some but pay very close attention to when it stops being FANTASTIC
If you are not hungry and the food is something other than fantastic: don't eat
What if that was the whole decision tree? Would you chose to rely on a construct like this? Are you willing to at least try it out?
The Eisenhower Principle of Eating
Posted: 25 May 2010 03:32 AM PDT
Somewhere, recently, in my web wanderings, I came across the Eisenhower Principle. Legend (or facts) have it that Eisenhower had a chart where he put all of his tasks. He sorted his tasks by urgent (or not) and important (or not). Depending on how they fell into these two categories, he would either handle them himself immediately, delegate them immediately, assign a due date for himself (because they were important but not urgent, or trash the "to do" all together (because they were neither important or urgent). Genius!! So what would happen if we applied this idea to eating?
What if we had to decide how we were going to eat based on hunger (either we are or we aren't) and how the food tastes (absolutely FANTASTIC or something below that level).
If you are hungry and the food is fantastic -- eat on
If you are hungry but the food is something other than fantastic: eat just enough to get your hunger to go away
If you are not hungry but the food is fantastic: eat some but pay very close attention to when it stops being FANTASTIC
If you are not hungry and the food is something other than fantastic: don't eat
What if that was the whole decision tree? Would you chose to rely on a construct like this? Are you willing to at least try it out?
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