Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is your host, Sarah Hardunger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent. I have a bit of a personal episode for you again today because, well, I'm going to talk about it,

but I'm just feeling a little bit in the weeds right now.

And this is a harder topic to talk about because I love planning.

I stand by my own planning techniques and the things we talk about week after week on this podcast.

And I have to also admit that sometimes no matter what you do, things can get hard. You can get

behind. You can feel stressed. And right now, I am in one of those phases myself. I'm going to share

some of the things that got me to be behind and how I'm

feeling about it and then also some ways that I'm hoping to carve myself out over the next

couple of weeks and hopefully soon. And just for context, I'm recording this episode after a

full day of work. This is my actually fourth weekday in a row of seeing

patients in the office, which is a lot when I normally work part time. And I have projects

that have been due. I had to spend my weekend working on something. And I like both of my

jobs. I like all of them. And I don't want to work on the weekends

very often, certainly not doing intense time sensitive work. And I don't want to be recording

podcast episodes at seven in the evening after I've seen patience all day and then picked up my

kid and then had dinner, et cetera. But this is where we are right now. And it is temporary.

And I'm hoping to carve my way out. So we're going to talk through some of that today in this

episode. So why? Why are we here? Have I always felt this behind? Was I always recording

podcast episodes at 7 o'clock at night on a clinical day?

No, the answer is no.

In fact, when I first went to 60% time, I remember thinking, oh, my goodness, this is amazing.

I have full Mondays and Wednesdays to get work done.

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