February Q&A: Planning for the Family, Managing Goals Lists + Big Projects, Planning in Pregnancy, and Keeping Track of Things You Want to Read (Eventually) EP 239

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Sarah answers questions accumulated in the month of February! Topics include: - How do you deal with planning events for family members (ie camp, bday parties, etc!) - How do I integrate goals lists into my planning when I feel like I have endless detailed lists dedicated to complicated projects? (Nested Goals ep: https://theshubox.com/2024/01/episode-182-nested-goals-explained.html) - Advice for planning in pregnancy + the postpartum period? - How does Sarah use the calendar pages in the Hobonichi Weeks? - How do you organize things "to be read" later that aren't books? (Magazine articles, journal articles, browser tabs, etc)? - Where can I fit in my morning planning routine (working mom with a baby!) SPONSORS: Prose: Custom skin and haircare that works! For an exclusive trial offer of 50% off your first haircare subscription order, visit prose.com/plans. Green Chef: Thrive all year with clean, easy meals from Green Chef. Visit greenchef.com/bestlaidfree and use code bestlaidfree for free salads for 2 months plus 50% off your first box! PrepDish: Convenient meal plans, recipes, and shopping lists to reduce your weekly mental load! Visit prepdish.com/plans for your first 2 weeks, FREE Mint Mobile: Low-cost wireless phone service – a great way to save every single month! Learn more at mintmobile.com/BLP IXL: Tailored and effective online learning (my kids have used this for years as part of their school curriculum)! Best Laid Plans listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at IXL.com/PLANS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	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.
0:17.1	Today is going to be your February Q&A episode. I have a lot of wonderful questions that were sent to me over the past few weeks that I'm going to be answering today. But I just wanted to open up with a note about life lately. Things have been a little bit hectic. I have to say, I think I have lacked a reasonable work-life balance for the past few
0:42.3	weeks. And I guess I just want to admit this because I think this can happen to anyone,
0:48.9	even when you put a lot of thought into how you'd like your weeks to look and you know that
0:53.6	your ideal week doesn't include evening like your weeks to look, and you know that your ideal week
0:54.5	doesn't include evening, podcast, recording sessions, and weekend frantic writing sessions and all
1:00.9	that. Sometimes it still happens. And I made conscious choices that led me to this place right now.
1:07.0	All of this is really in service to the book that is going to come out in January, and I believe
1:12.2	it's going to be worth it. So these were knowing sacrifices that I made, and I have definitely
1:18.6	just felt overextended lately. So it's good to notice these things. I think the only thing I can
1:24.3	say is that I'm hoping that if I ever write another book, and I hope to write
1:28.1	another book, because I've actually really enjoyed it, I'll have a little bit of a longer timeline,
1:32.6	but also I think that I am going to do a really nice job of kind of balance things out over the
1:39.3	next coming months and making some of the next months a little bit easier and more family-focused
1:45.7	to balance out the past few months that were just really, really work-focused.
1:51.4	And that's both clinical work having just come off a week of call that was really busy
1:55.1	and work for the book and my courses and the projects and everything.
1:59.2	And all of it's wonderful and I enjoy doing it.
2:02.0	And I'm ready to do a little bit less of it in the coming months. So yeah, just a little
2:06.5	life update on me. I will definitely keep you updated about book news and things are going really
2:13.2	well. I'm actually getting ready to turn in basically what is my final draft. So that is super,
2:18.2	super exciting. I feel like I've reached kind of a big deal finish line in the process. And since this
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