Hello and welcome to Best Land Plans.

This is your host Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning

and planning adjacent.

I know I entitled this episode, morning routines, and some exciting news, but I'm actually going to start with the exciting news to not kind of leave you hanging for the entire episode.

My news is that I do officially have a book coming out. It has a pub date of January 6, 2026, and it has been made official by the publisher so I can share some more details today.

The book is going to be called Best Laid Plans, a simple planning system for living a life that

you love, and it is a guide to my planning system at each time horizon in addition to lots

of other planning adjacent tidbits. I've been working on this material for many, many years. I actually

remember this moment when I was, I think, fairly new to the medical, to the hospital system where I

work. And there was a surgeon there who was pretty successful writing his own medical mystery

series. He's actually since retired. And we had this conversation. And he's like,

I write books on the side. And I was like, wow, that is so cool. I want to write a book too.

And he said, oh, really? On what? And I said planning. There's just like dead air. Like, okay,

that sounds like a great book topic. But I knew I wanted to write this book. I knew I had it in me. I'm so passionate about this area and I've learned so much from doing this podcast and working with all of you over the years

that I am just so excited. I felt like I was ready to turn this into book form. And now it is

happening. My publisher is source books, which has been great to work with. My editor's name is

Ariel. She actually has a podcast of her own called Hungry Authors. So if you want to check

that out, you can. I don't know if she knows that I know she has a podcast, but I do. So it's

fun to listen to if you are interested in writing yourself. And yeah,

just super, super exciting to be able to share more about this project going forward. Now,

is it done? It is not done. It is mostly done. There is a manuscript. It is not entirely

finished editing. There's some work I need to do on some of the

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