April Q&A: Planning vs Execution, Delegating Tasks, and Spring Planner Releases EP 298

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In today's ep, Sarah answers questions for the month of April! Topics include: Why no planner reviews lately + notes on spring releases Tips for reminding others of tasks you are attempting to delegate (with a listener tip as one possible answer!) To-be-read list management Struggles with planning vs execution Resources + Links: Simplified planners: emilyley.comHobonichi April start: https://www.1101.com/store/techo/en/lineup/Episode with Cal Newport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LejRmFRxXbY&t=3702sEpisode on The Gap Between Planning and Doing: https://theshubox.com/2025/04/ep-245-the-gap-between-planning-and-doing.htmlCourses: BLPA2.0 is almost full - details at theshubox.com/courses OUR SPONSORS: IXL: Best Laid Plans listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at ⁠https://www.ixl.com/plans⁠ Mint Mobile: Shop affordable cell phone plans at ⁠mintmobile.com/BLP⁠ Green Chef: Healthy eating made easy. Visit ⁠greenchef.com/50bestlaid ⁠and use code 50bestlaid to get 50% your first month, then 20% off for two months. PrepDish: Healthy and strategic meal plans to fit your family's nutritional needs! Visit ⁠prepdish.com/plans⁠ for your first two weeks free! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.
0:11.0	This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning
0:15.3	and planning adjacent.
0:17.4	Today, I have a Q&A episode for you for April. These are questions that were submitted over the past
0:23.3	month, and I got some great ones, so excited to share them with you on this episode. I also have a
0:29.2	couple of listeners suggestions and then a couple of notes that I'm going to start out with
0:33.0	about Best Laid Plans Academy. But don't worry, we will get to the questions right up next.
0:38.7	I just wanted to kick this show off to let people know if you are interested in signing up for
0:43.7	Best Lade Plans Academy 2.0 version that it is almost full. I honestly, it may be full by the time
0:50.4	this airs. I have to record a few days in advance, so it's always hard to know.
0:58.9	But as of the recording, right now, there are a few slots remaining, but this probably will be the last mention before it is full. And this is a summer program, essentially a planning boot camp,
1:04.8	where I take you through interactive lessons on planning at every level, from inbox management
1:09.7	to task management and calendars to then
1:12.0	planning at the yearly seasonal monthly weekly and daily level and the goal of this program is to make
1:18.0	sure that your system is as functional as it can be whether you're tweaking one that already
1:22.6	exists and just has some issues or building one from the ground up. This is similar in content to Best Lay Plans
1:29.5	Academy 1.0, but it's revamped with all new materials, workbook, et cetera. So it's basically a
1:36.9	refreshed version of the prior course. And I have taught this course five times in the past
1:42.5	beginning with 2022. So I feel like I learned so
1:45.3	much from doing it and I had wanted to create an even better version. So that's what this one is.
1:50.9	I got a couple of questions as to how does it differ from things like planning by season and
1:55.8	the yearly planning courses. Those yearly planning courses and planning by season are guided planning
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