Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is Sarah Hardunger and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent. So today I'm going to talk about the topic, lessons from a hard week.

Because I just had a pretty hard week, and I do feel like there were some things I can share that I thought a lot about as the week went on and that I hope to maybe put into practice next time.

I think maybe some people listening to this podcast who don't know

me in real life may think that I have everything under control at all times because I love

to plan. And anybody who does know me who listens to this podcast knows that that is

certainly not the case. I am pretty high functioning, I would say,

and I'm pretty proactive, but I have a lot of balls in the air, and I can be emotional during

more stressful times. So just in case anyone thinks that life is easy if you are an upholder and

have an organized planner, I am here to tell you that

there are still many challenges along the way. And part of that is because I, as I've said,

I like to do a lot of things, but part of that is because even when I'm not doing a lot of things,

there are just some phases that are incredibly challenging. Phases like after you first have a baby, that's a really hard and stressful time because

all of a sudden you're responsible for someone 24-7, everything becomes unpredictable,

you become tired.

It's just a really challenging time, almost universally.

I'm not sure anyone would ever say that,

you know, those first few weeks after having a newborn are easy or goes smoothly. Well, maybe there

are some people like that, but I don't think there's that many of them. And then there are times

that my job might be, maybe that's one of the only things that I'm doing or perhaps

thinking back to my residency years,

I didn't have that many other responsibilities, but there were some months that were just

incredibly intense and required a lot of work, months where I had to take overnight call

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