Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

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

and planning adjacent.

If my voice sounds a little bit different than usual today, that is because I am recording

this from another country. I'm actually in Nova Scotia, Canada. I'm on a girls trip right

now with two friends that I will tell you a little bit more about later in this episode.

And I decided not to bring my microphone on the trip, even though I knew I might want to record an episode.

So you have me on my laptop.

I don't think there's too much background noise, so hopefully the sound will not be too bad.

But if it doesn't sound quite as crisp as my audio usually does, that is the reason,

because I'm doing something really fun.

So I hope that tradeoff is worth it.

And I hope the sound isn't too distracting. So why am I on this awesome trip? Well, this is kind of

part of the topic here because we are going to talk about five reflective practices to think about

as you are starting to maybe get in the mood to plan your 2026. And I absolutely don't think

anyone should really be in the place where they're doing hardcore planning of next year

when we still have two and a half months to enjoy in 2025. So in no way am I recommending

that you bypass that fun or that you even really start crafting

concrete lists and things about what you want to do next year, you know, unless your cadence

is different and you like to plan in November or something else. However, sometimes there is

some pre-planning or just dreaming, if you will, that can fit into our everyday lives that will just still be useful

as we think about the broader picture of what we want for ourselves, what we want our lives to

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