Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and I am excited to bring you all things planning and planning related today at the start of season two and a new year. Yay!

So I impulsively decided that instead of making this episode number 24, which is what it is,

we would start a whole new season to go along with the new year, as well as, of course, a new quintile.

I've discussed my quintiles before. As you guys know, I enjoy dividing my year into

five parts instead of four. Quintile number one goes from January 1st because we have to have

one that starts then and ends with my kids spring break. Interestingly, my kids have two

different spring breaks this year. So I'm not sure how that's going to play into my system, but perhaps I'll just use the end of the second one as a logical ending there.

Anyway, I'm so excited to be here. I am recording it at the end of 2020, so I'll admit that I can't tell you how this new year has come upon us yet. That's going to surprise me as much as it surprises

you. And we have had a little bit of a tumultuous ending to our 2020. In very 2020 style, we are

quarantining right now due to an exposure. So hopefully all will end well. By the time this episode

airs, it will all be a memory. But I thought I would take today to just discuss

what systems I plan on using in the new year. Many of them are similar to systems I have used,

but I have made some small changes. And, you know, as always, I have products that I love and

plan on going back to, as well as a couple that I used to use but have decided I'm

not going to use anymore. So I'm going to talk about both the physical and digital products

and systems that are going to be sort of my everyday uses for the new year. And I'm excited to

bring you some more exciting guests and Q&As this year as well. So please, if you would

like more Q&A's addressed, just send them to me on email or on Instagram. If you have a product

that seems like it really needs to be reviewed, let me know. And if you have a guest to suggest,

I'd love to hear it as we bring you some fun content for this new year. All right.

Current system. First of all is the basics. Of course, my planner. My paper planner, I'm using

the Wonderland 222, A5 planner and notebook. I've gone into depth in this system before, including an

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