Agile Mom Lean Startup: Avoid Waste (Of Time) And Prepare Outfits For A Week

Part of me is agile mom out of conviction. Part of it is because I just do not have the time to micro-manage my daughter 😉

I try to go through life in style. In order to do this efficiently, I developed the habit of regularly preparing complete outfits for roughly 10 days in advance. I put together clothes for all lined up occasions, including socks, underwear and accessories. I believe this saves me at least 30 minutes per week, which I can use for reading to my daughter instead of hectically browsing for matching stockings in the morning.

I do not want to take full credit for this idea. In fact, it developed through a kind of reverse engineering. 10 years ago, I read the book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” by Facebook COO and feminist thinker Sheryl Sandberg. In that book she mentioned a friend who put her kindergarden kids to bed already wearing their clothes for the next day instead of pyjamas.

I did the same thing, saving precious time in the morning and honestly, it worked perfectly fine since my daughter was only wearing comfy t-shirts and baggy, soft pants anyway and smelled like a peach no matter what.

The lean approach for my personal “dress-to-impress” was just a logical next step.

What are your LEAN tips and strategies? What are your hacks to save time at mundane tasks to have more for meaningful activities?