Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

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

Today's episode is going to be focused on the ideal week.

This was inspired because I've been starting to do some planning for quintile two,

which we talked about last week, kind of my spring season.

And one of the rituals that I put into place at the beginning of every quintile is to take a look at my ideal week.

Now, confession, I haven't actually done that every single

quintile since I thought about doing this, but I do try to do it periodically. I got the idea

initially, I believe, from Michael Hyatt, because in the full focus planner, there is a two-page

spread in there for the ideal week. So his idea is to have people use that planner and that

system do it quarterly.

I've also heard my podcasting partner and time management expert Laura Vandercam talk about

creating an ideal week type schedule.

And I know I've seen it a couple other places too.

So a lot of people have had different interpretations and ideas related to the ideal week.

But I haven't heard any content specifically focused on this for a while,

and I thought it would be a timely thing to talk about, as many of us are probably kind of

finding our footing into the next season. The year is not so fresh anymore. We're trying to figure

out what routines are working and what might not be fitting in the way we envisioned it. And I

think that the ideal week exercise is a the way we envisioned it. And I think that the ideal week

exercise is a fantastic way to dive in and troubleshoot and think and analyze what is going on

so you can figure out what to change, what's working, and what's not. So we're going to talk about it

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