Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

And this is your host, Sarah Hart Unger.

I am here with you as we are midway through the month of January.

This episode airs on January 15th, which is a U.S. holiday, Martin Luther King Day.

So hopefully you are doing something to honor that holiday today.

Or perhaps like me, you are actually at work.

But either way, whether you are serving others in your job or reflecting at home and enjoying

some time off, I hope that you are still retaining some of that lovely new month energy

that all many of us are kind of greeted with as we start the new year. And for some,

it takes a little bit longer to wear off. So hopefully you're still enjoying your shiny new planner,

practicing your new routines, and generally leaning into this fun season. Today, I have an episode

for you that has a couple of listener tips that were sent in. These were gold. And I could not

just let them kind of, you know, people always say, oh, send this back to the person who, you know,

had the question or the concern. And I'm like, no, I need to share it with the world because

somebody writing me with some kind of question probably means there's many people just like

that person who has the same struggle. And so when I get some valuable response, I want to share

it with all of you. So we're going to open the episode with a couple of listener tips. And then I'm going to go into the January Q&A. So with that, we will go ahead and get

started. I am going to start with this first strategy that a listener sent in that I just felt was

too good to keep to myself. Our listeners name is Adelaide, and she notes that she is French living in the Netherlands,

and she writes,

Happy New Year, I wish you all the best for 2024.

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