Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

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

So we are here today, and even though this airs November 8th,

I am recording this at the very beginning of Quintile 5, which I consider reflection season.

I love this time of year. For me, it's a time to spend with family and also time to spend

thinking about my goals and setting on my planning

systems for the next year and just thinking about what I want to carry forward and what I want

to leave behind. And I greatly find myself enjoying the process. So it's not just a means to an end,

but more about diving in and actually enjoying the process of thinking about what fun and exciting

things I want to incorporate in the years ahead. I hope that you too are enjoying diving into this

season and I have a few suggestions for things you might want to consider to help you make the most

of this quintile. First, you might want to choose a help you make the most of this quintile.

First, you might want to choose a book that helps you reflect on how you spend time.

This is a great time to dive into some productivity or nonfiction classics.

You could pick an old classic, like Getting Things Done by David Allen, or Laura Vandercam's 168 hours. I guess that's not that old.

It came out in, I think, 2009. Or perhaps you could embrace a new one. Oliver Berkman's

4,000 weeks is what I'm reading right now. And even though at times I find his writing antithetical

to goal setting and checklists, I also see a lot of value in his lessons and hope that they, you know, help me see my own

planning in maybe a perhaps slightly different light.

So maybe more on that in a future episode.

And if I can get Oliver on the show, even better.

That would be a nice reach goal for 2022.

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