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.

This is our second episode of 2024 since I was lucky enough to have the first episode fall on

January 1st, which was a lot of fun. And so by now, hopefully you're really getting into

the groove of that new year energy, but combined with your regular routines, just maybe

with a little bit more pep in your step because, hey, it is a fresh start. You're addressing new

goals, building new routines. And if you're anything like me, just kind of enjoying life and

figuring out how everything fits in when the new year has begun. So the first thing I wanted to

talk about is just a thank you because I received a lot of emails around the end of the year

and the start of the

year. Some of them were responses to my newsletter, which comes out every single month on the first.

And people may not know this, but you can actually write me back on that newsletter just by

hitting reply like a regular email. Don't worry. It won't go to all the recipients. It will just go to me.

And it was just lovely. I received a number of people

that just wrote in telling me how this podcast and some of my planning techniques impacted them in

23, generally for the better and how they're excited to implement some of these tools in the new year.

And it was just really, really fun to see. I'm not going to read any of the specific emails since

I don't know how many, you know, details people want to include on the podcast, but I just want you to know

if it was you who sent me one, I really appreciated. And if these podcast episodes helped you in any way

last year, I am so glad. It makes me super, super happy. I appreciate all of you.

I'm so excited that there is an audience that is excited to hear about all kinds of planning

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