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. If my voice sounds different or bad right

now, that is because I currently have COVID and today's episode is not going to be what I had

planned because even my best laid plans have to

change sometimes. Just to tell you what we were going to do, my husband and I had been in the

process of taking a fun couples trip. We were going to visit our big kids who are finishing up at

summer camp. They had visiting day. And after that, we were going to go on our own little

couple's retreat for a few days. And I had convinced him to do an episode with me about his planning

techniques. However, when we went to do our pre-test to go see the kids at camp, he was extremely

positive for COVID, despite having only very minimal symptoms the day

before that we thought were allergies. Anyway, he ended up getting sicker, he's fine now,

and then I tested positive and started feeling bad approximately three days after he did,

so this stuff is contagious. I'm starting to feel slightly better, but just not totally with it.

And I know my voice doesn't sound very good.

So instead of forcing myself to put together a new episode for you guys,

I'm going to air an episode that was I got a lot of positive feedback from several months ago.

It's about planning to get through

harder times and it was inspired by a tough call week I had. I'm happy to report that the

last call week I had was much better and I do feel like I employed a number of these techniques.

So I guess some of this advice really can work sometimes. Anyway, this has been kind of a lesson in understanding

that things aren't always going to go as plan, but I still don't regret putting the plans together

because honestly, we planned a lot of really fun things this summer, and I had to come to terms

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