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.

Today we have a bit of a mixed bag. I'm going to talk a little bit about the take-home points that I got from doing digital detox. A little bit about my word of the year for 2024. Yes, I'm already thinking about that. And some things about seasonal planning and a little bit of holiday fun coming up. So we will go ahead and get started. So digital detox.

Digital detox is a program that I was inspired to create because I myself am really interested in how I can

better use my device in ways that serve me and not use it in ways

that don't serve me. And I've done a number of episodes about that. I think there was one called

like from the heart screen time thoughts that I can link to. But it did seem like a lot of people

had similar challenges to what I had. And I had read a number of books making different

suggestions about how to conquer these habits. And I had made a decent amount of progress myself.

So I decided to create a little bit of a group resource to basically cultivate a group of

like-minded people who had similar goals and put together a program to help us all

use our phones more intentionally, phones, computers, any kind of screens.

And I launched this over the summer, which was interesting timing.

I don't think it's necessarily peak timing for wanting to do a digital detox.

I think in general, people in the

summer are just kind of enjoying live, vacationing, hanging out with family, and are not necessarily

thinking as much about habits. But for me, this is something that comes up all of the time,

so I decided to launch it then. So we did get a group of passionate

individuals. It was a little bit of a smaller group, but it was decent size. And we met four times

via Zoom for the formal part of the program. And then we did two additional follow-up sessions.

I created a workbook because I always like to create a workbook because who doesn't like a nice, well-designed workbook. And then we also had a little bit of a

WhatsApp thread, which was kind of funny. People were like, well, I want this thread to be

active, but I also don't want to use it. So, you know, that kind of came full circle. But it was a

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