January Energy + 3 Essential Systems EP 233

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

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

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Sarah checks in with a January energy report and provides some words of caution about this high-motivation time -- it's fun and you should enjoy it, but be prepared for it to be transient! She shares her thoughts on 3 essential systems for life management: a comprehensive and accurate Master Calendar, Airtight Task Management, and her Nested Goals framework. Resources/other episodes mentioned: 1) Seasonal Planning Example: https://theshubox.com/2024/03/blp-episode-189-diving-into-quintile-2.html 2) All About Nested Goals: https://theshubox.com/2024/01/episode-182-nested-goals-explained.html 3) Second Brain concept (credit to Tiago Forte): https://theshubox.com/2024/01/second-brain-ing-my-apple-notes.html https://theshubox.com/2022/08/blp-episode-108-back-to-school-scrolling-habits-planner-matchups-apple-notes.html Send in your questions, Planner Peace submissions, and favorite shop recs - comment on theshubox.com, text to 305-697-7189, or email sarah.hart.unger at gmail! Episode Sponsors: Green Chef: The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! Visit greenchef.com/plansfree and use code plansfree to get started with free salads for 2 months plus 50% off your first box! IXL: Make an impact on your child's learning with IXL. Visit IXL.com/PLANS to get the most effective learning program out there at the best price. Mint Mobile: Amazingly affordable wireless service! Check out their new customer offer with 3-month unlimited wireless plan for just 15 dollars a month by visiting mintmobile.com/blp PrepDish: Convenient, healthy, and delicious meal plans sent directly to your inbox! Visit prepdish.com/plans for your first two weeks FREE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.
0:11.0	This is your host Sarah Hart Unger and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.
0:17.0	I am so excited to be here with you today.
0:20.0	Full disclosure, I believe this is the first episode that I have recorded since the new year has actually begun. Could be wrong about that, but I think that's actually true. So I'm in major fresh start mode and I hope that energy comes across over the microphone today. Just to give you a little bit of a taste of what's
0:38.1	coming. I have some exciting guests coming up in the next few weeks. My plan is to alternate
0:43.0	just me episodes with guest episodes. But next week, you'll be hearing from an expert on
0:47.5	organizing and routines. And then probably in a couple weeks from then, we'll be hearing from
0:52.2	an expert about style and how that
0:54.2	kind of goes along with planning and organizing as she's quite passionate about those things as well.
0:59.6	But today, you just get me because it's the new year. I have lots of that fresh darn energy to share
1:05.4	with you. And I also thought a classic systems type episode would be timely and appropriate as people are
1:12.5	really into their systems right now, or perhaps you are just getting yours set up for 2025,
1:18.0	and you want some inspiration and ideas. Before we get started with the systems, I guess I just
1:24.4	wanted to update on how my year is going so far. So we are, as I record this,
1:30.1	about a week into the new year, and I'm really happy with my 2025 tools, with the goals that I
1:36.0	said, I'm kind of enjoying the things that I set out to do, which I think is a good and promising
1:40.6	sign. I am loving using my Hobonichi weeks to keep track of various habits,
1:46.7	to put my workouts in there, my reading, all kinds of things. As I mentioned, I moved from a
1:52.4	bulkier disc-bound journal that I used last year to this much more streamlined and much more
1:58.1	transient-feeling book because it's obviously really just going to be for one
2:02.6	year because it's dated, but I really love it so far. So definitely we'll update more on that
2:07.3	later on, but so far, so good. I've also made great use of my own workbooks lately. I mean,
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