Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent. So I will open this show up by telling you all that I just got back from vacation a few days ago.

Our family took a ski trip to Big Sky, Montana.

It was our second time going there and was so much fun, very relaxing.

I did a little bit of longer range planning, mostly on the plane, but for the most part,

my planner went pretty dormant while I was there.

As I mentioned, I usually put most of my concrete travel plans into Apple Notes, so I didn't

even need to look at my planner to see like where we were doing dinner on different nights.

I was able to just pull that up on Apple Notes.

And yeah, I'm just ready to get my planning mojo back on. It's a new month, a new quintile.

I even received some April start products to review and play with that I'll talk about on some

future episodes. But yeah, just super, super excited to be back. I am a bit behind. I purposely

stepped away from work over the past week, so I arrived to a very

crowded clinical inbox on Monday that improved by the end of the day. I kind of attacked it

between patients to the extent that I could. And then I would say my creative work is the work

that is going to take a little bit longer to dig out of

the hole I created because there was no real away message, at least when I'm not seeing

patients. I'm not racking up patient notes or lab results for the most part. But when I am away

for my Gmail, then all the podcast stuff does kind of keep coming in.

So anyway, I'm giving myself a gentle kind of stepwise approach to catching up.

I'm going to give myself the week to get current on things rather than expecting everything to be done in a day.

And I'm definitely exercising plenty of triage where I take care of more urgent things now and then assume that by the

time we roll around to next week, I'll pretty much be back in my regular working routine.

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