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.

Today is definitely one of those planner adjacent topics for you, but it's one that's been on my mind for a while.

And even though I don't consider myself a subject matter expert, I do have some thoughts and opinions on the subject, so I thought I would share them with you today.

The topic that I am getting at is organizing and dealing with stuff, aka clutter. So you might think, well, what does that have to do

with planning? And I guess it's not directly related to planning. However, I always feel like

handling things within your space is sort of, I don't know, analogous to planning and being intentional with your time and your

goals. When you're organizing and you're decluttering, you're being intentional in a similar way

with your stuff and your space, just like your time, your space and your money to buy stuff is

limited. And handling those in a way that really makes sense to you that is

a thought through can make a difference in how your life goes from day to day. I am not someone

who is fantastic at organizing my space. If you come into my home, you would not necessarily

look around and think, wow, this person has mastered her space and decluttering.

That is in part because I am not an incredibly visual person and also because I have three

kids and a fairly hectic slash active lifestyle. However, I feel like there's things I've learned

over the years and that this is just a really interesting topic to discuss and go through. I also feel like both planning and having your space

organized impacts your overall efficiency. An efficiency is something I'm incredibly

passionate about, not because I want to rush through things, but because I want to spend my

precious time doing things that matter to me, things that are fun, things that are

enjoyable, connecting with loved ones, and not time dealing with last-minute emergencies that

could have been prevented, or searching through my space to find lost items that are buried

under piles. So again, a lot of kind of parallels between these two

realms. A cluttered space is chaos and a cluttered schedule is chaos. And both of those can be

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