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.

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So today as this episode comes out, it's September 30th, which I should know, because last week was September 23rd, and I pointed out that it was 100 days left in the year. And yet, somehow I had in my mind that this episode was going to come out on October 1st. So I got all excited and I wanted the episode to be all about the month and a new

month as fresh start. And then I realized that this episode does not start at the beginning of a month.

But you know what? If you're listening to this when it comes out, tomorrow is a new month. So maybe

that is even better as this episode can get you prepared for the dawn of October, which will

actually be happening

tomorrow, which feels pretty amazing. I had a very rough August and September. I don't know that

I'm through some of the stressors that caused that roughness, but I think that maybe I am, and I am excited.

I'm very much looking forward to that fresh start.

I also want to acknowledge that there were some wonderful things over the past few months,

and I never want to wish my life away.

And I also don't want to, I don't know, I don't want to minimize what I went through.

And at the same time, I know that other people

face things that are even more challenging. Nothing was life-threatening. I did not lose a loved one.

So I can't even imagine how hard it is when some of these things happen. And at the same time,

stress is real no matter what level it is at and it's not a contest so yeah very excited

for this fresh start and that's what is going to inspire this episode so i've also done a lot of

thinking about the month time frame as you guys know i'm working on a writing project and i just

finished the monthly section of it so So this is all fresh in my

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