Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is a podcast about all things planning and planning adjacent. Here we are, and it is mid-April as this airs. I am definitely in Q2 now. There was a little

bit of blurriness in terms of when that quintile actually began for me because I haven't really

decided whether it should begin after spring break or before. But I'm leaning towards after because

the kids are back to school,

our routines have resumed, and that seems like a nice time to have a fresh slate of goals,

which I do have and I'm excited about. I have to say I'm also kind of happy finding myself

with more things to plan. I think I talked about how as someone that's very into planning and

anticipating and gets a lot of joy out of that process, one of the big losses during the

pandemic was the inability to do that because, you know, when you had so much uncertainty,

it was not really possible to put things on your calendar and know they were going to happen.

So it's kind of like there was a double loss. You lost the actual things and then you lost the

anticipation of the things if you were the kind of person that liked to do so. Well, now I am taking

extra joy in being able to anticipate at least some things with at least decent certainty, although I guess

if anything, if the pandemic has taught me anything, it's that nothing is ever certain anyway,

because who knows what's going to happen? Anyway, we're getting a little deep today. Today is a Q&A

episode, but I thought I would sneak in a couple of personal planner updates before I get to the questions that we have.

So I kind of hinted that I was taking a break from my Wonderland planner. It was a wonderful

planner. It still is a wonderful planner. I just kind of got tired of having to write so

tiny in the little grids, which is odd because I used

the hobonici for years and they really have the same grid size. But somebody sent me a

day designer that I reviewed in detail in a prior episode. And it made me realize that, you know,

my natural handwriting is a little bit bigger than what I was cramming into

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