Hello, and this is Sarah Hart Unger.

Welcome to Best-Lade Plans, the podcast about all things planning and planning adjacent.

So welcome.

This is likely going to be the last episode of the season. As I mentioned, we will be going on a brief hiatus in July so that I can come back fresh and full of new ideas for you as the academic year begins in August.

So for today, because I wanted to try to go out with a bit of a bang, I decided that I would do an off-the-cuff

episode just answering all of your questions. And so on Monday's episode, I put out a call on

Instagram as well as in the episode, and I invited you all to submit questions via my stories,

and I got a ton of fantastic questions. So to be honest, I'm wondering if this may actually become two episodes

because I don't want them to be much longer than the 20, 25 minutes of my normal length.

I think that's more than enough to hear one person speaking.

So anyway, this might be part one.

We will see where we get to, but I'm going to do my best to answer every single one of them.

And as I mentioned, so no rehearsal for these answers. This is pretty off the cuff. So you're going to get lots of honesty and maybe some imperfection, which is kind of how I plan. So there you go.

All right. Question number one comes from Carrie. She writes, I struggle with

bullet journaling, even though I want to love it. Have any tips? Well, I guess my biggest tip

would be don't force yourself to bullet journal if you don't love it, even though you want to love it.

Maybe you'd be better and a more structured planner. I personally experimented bullet journaling. I found it fun, but I found it a lot of work.

And it is something that while I do incorporate bullet journal like elements into some of my

planning processes, I don't really have a bullet journal. So maybe it's kind of the direction you need to go as

well. So think about what you like and see if you can incorporate

those elements, but don't pressure yourself to follow any specific method when it comes to planning

or journaling. The bullet journal, the traditional one, is a pretty structured thing. And if it

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