Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

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

We are coming towards the end of the calendar year. Such a wonderful time to be

listening to this podcast, I think, as you plan out your strategies for 2022. And today, I have two

product reviews for you that I've been kind of saving for the end of the year because these are really both two great

options for journaling, more gratitude journaling and reflection rather than planning.

But I really wanted to showcase them in case people are looking for something in addition

or instead of a planner. For example,

if you're a big time digital planner type of a person and you have everything in Google

calendar and to-doist, you still might crave putting pen to paper when you are thinking

through goals or reflecting or just the coziness of being able to curl up and kind of

write what you're thinking. And maybe you're comfortable doing that in a blank dotted bullet

journal. But if you're looking for something with more structure, I think these two options are

really intriguing and really cool products that I wanted to talk about. One of them I think I'm

going to try using for the next few months. The other one, I don't know that I wanted to talk about. One of them I think I'm going to try using for

the next few months. The other one, I don't know that I have actual room in my life for yet

another book, but I still think it's a really solid option that I wanted to talk about. So the first

one is the JMB Living Journal. I learned about this initially via Amanda's favorites. She gives me lots of ideas for

things to review and learn more about. And she has her own detailed video reviewing this planner

on her YouTube channel. So you can check that out as well if you'd like some visuals.

So I decided upon hearing her talk about it that I had to order

one for myself to see what it was all about and perhaps to give it a try. And this is a quarterly

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