Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.

This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things, planners,

planning, and planning adjacent. Today may be one of those episodes where we get a little bit adjacent into time management

and just some life philosophy stuff because it's a deep dive episode.

You guys know I've been having the format where we either have a guest or we do a product

review or we do a Q&A or we take a Q&A, or we take a deep dive.

And I've gotten some feedback that many of you really enjoy these deep dives.

Some people have said they have gone back and listened to some of their favorites,

like my weekly review and my monthly review episodes, kind of hits, I guess.

Here comes another one.

But this one is going to be all about daily planning and the rituals that kind of

make up the bones and the structure of our days. I had a mini revelation while I was walking or

I was running the other day, and I think I was listening to somebody talk about how when you

do the things you want to do and be the person you want to be,

it kind of crowds out some of the things that you might not want to do. In fact,

this was actually Angela Duckworth talking to Stephen Dubner on one of their No Stupid

Questions episodes. And I don't remember exactly why that came up. but I was running. And as one does when they're

running, I felt like that struck me really deeply. And the way it struck me deeply had to do with

some of the battle that I've been facing off with myself around screen time. You guys know I've been

trying to spend less than 100 minutes per day on my phone and sometimes I am successful and sometimes I'm not.

A couple of days recently, I have had days where I felt like I had really nice days.

Like I had lots of time with my kids and I read and I organized and I enjoyed life and had conversations, but the minutes on my phone were like 112 or 107,

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