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.

I cannot believe it, but this is episode 300 of best laid plans. And I don't know the story of when

this podcast started. Some of you have been listening from the very beginning. And thank you so

much. But this podcast started in 2020 because I was working in my medical job and they were doing something called a furlough

where they were having us not work, I think every other Friday, but we were kind of forced

to take time off whether we wanted to or not. And I was already doing a podcast, Best of Both

Worlds, with Laura Vandercam, which is still going strong today, almost nine years

into it. But I thought, now I have these extra Fridays. I think I better find something else to do

with myself. And so I was like, you know what I love? I love planners and I love planning.

So I'll just start this little side project. And if anybody wants to listen to it maybe maybe i'll get a few

planner fanatics to join me here and i never dreamed it would become such a big part of my life

and something that i know i have like a good number of people that have listened for many many years

i get emails every single day from you guys. I get the best comments and questions.

I ended up writing a book with the same name with so many of the things that I learned while

doing this podcast and then teaching the courses that came from this podcast. And I mean,

it's amazing that this all started as just like a little fun side project in 2020 during

pandemic times. So I thought it would be fun to reflect a little fun side project in 2020 during pandemic times.

So I thought it would be fun to reflect a little bit on this episode with gratitude

to all of you who are listening about some things that I feel very passionate about

just feeling grateful for that are sort of planning adjacent.

And then also expressing gratitude

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