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When life feels like one long to-do list, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. But there’s a simple method that can help bring order to the chaos and give you more time for the things that really matter—like your workouts, meal prep, and self-care.

Introducing the Eisenhower Matrix, a powerful tool to prioritise tasks and even cross off some for good!

How Does It Work?

Here’s how to start using the Eisenhower Matrix to take control of your schedule:

1. Categorize Your Tasks: Urgent vs. Not Urgent
   Begin by sorting your to-do list into two categories: Urgent and Not Urgent.

   • Urgent tasks demand immediate attention and often leave you feeling stressed and rushed.

2. Further Sort Your Tasks: Important vs. Not Important
   Next, take each task and decide whether it’s Important or Not Important.

   • Important tasks are those that contribute to your long-term goals and overall well-being.

3. Build Your Matrix
   With your tasks classified, place them into this matrix:

   • Urgent/Important
   • Urgen...

The lead up to year-end holidays can be full of routine disruptors which can make skipped workouts, overeating and weight gain feel inevitable. But it doesn't have to be that way. 

Anticipating the challenges to come and arming yourself with some strategies to get through the holidays relatively unscathed is they key to surviving them.

There's lots of tips and tricks that I can give you, but I want to give you just 4 to focus on that I think are the most important and I'll include some infographics from Precision Nutrition that will help arm you with some strategies. These will help you to prioritise health, fitness and nutrition no matter what life throws at you - including the holiday season.

1. Eat slowly and until you feel "satisfied" rather than "stuffed"

One of the best ways that you can reduce your calorie intake immediately (without restrictive dieting) is with this one simple and effective tool. It helps in two ways:

• It takes 15-20 mins for your satiety hormones to kick
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