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.

So today I'm going to talk to you about a topic that might sound a little bit boring, but I think it does impact all of us.

And I'm actually kind of surprised. I haven't done an episode dedicated to this topic yet, but I did a whole scroll back and I didn't find it.

So I apologize if I'm doing it for the second time, if it was maybe a segment of an episode.

But today we're going to talk about the fun of email and the not fun of email and some of

the strategies I use or don't use for email. And I'm going to invite you to share your strategies

as well. But first, as always, we will open with our planner piece segment.

I love getting these.

As you guys know, I've been getting some of them via audio and some of them via email.

And I actually have a couple kind of lined up in a queue, but that should not stop you.

Keep them coming because I want to share all different types of planner piece.

You know, if you feel like you've reached a nice, steady state of momentum with your planning

system, that's all planner piece is.

So send me a note.

It doesn't have to be planner piece forever and ever, but planner piece for right now.

So keep sending those in.

You can do them as a comment.

You can email me at shoebox blog, S-H-U-O-G-G-G-G-Mel.com,

or you can do it via audio on the speakpipe icon on the show notes page for best laid plans.

All right. So here we go. This submission comes all the way from a listener in, she says, Australia or New Zealand

accent, so I'm not sure which one, but definitely one of those, which is super cool. And she writes,

I'm also a sub-specialist pediatrician with a mix of clinical and research roles. My husband's also

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