What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Megan, welcome back to the show. Thank you. Yes, your episode. I got so much feedback on it.

So for new listeners out there, make sure to go back and

listen to my original episode at any point with Megan, who is a time management coach for women.

She does amazing things and has helped me so much and my listeners. So that's definitely

one to go back and listen to. And we're here today to talk about something I hadn't been too familiar with,

but now that I am, I'm like, I'm on board. I want to do it. And that is annual planning. So let's

dive in. Are you ready? Yeah. I cannot wait because this is so needed, I think, in so many people's

lives. So tell us, tell my listeners, what is an annual plan? What's the purpose

behind it? Yeah. So cue the eye roll that everyone probably just did or the grown, right? Like first of all,

why would I even be thinking about it this time of year? And second of all, why even bother? Because I don't

even know what I'm doing tomorrow, right? Yes. So first,

I just kind of want to get a lay of the land of what annual planning is when it's done right

and the purpose that it serves. So this ties into everything with my time management framework where

our ultimate goal is to prevent you from over-scheduling and gain absolute realistic clarity into what

kind of time do you have? Because the thing that keeps cyclically happening over and over and

over again, especially with women, is the years wrapping up. We look back and all we do is focus on all the,

all the things we're unhappy about instead of celebrating all the amazing things that we

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