Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is Sarah Hard Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

Today is our very last episode of 2022, and I am excited to bring you a whole bunch of listener

questions and several listener tips. Those of you who have been listening since the beginning,

thank you so much for supporting the show and always sharing such wonderful things with me.

And if you're newer this year, because this show did have some growth in 2022, I'm super excited

that you found us.

And I hope that you will continue to kind of join the community, share stuff with me, and

continue to listen into the new year.

So just thank you all.

As we finish out this great year, it's been a really exciting journey.

And there's some really fun stuff coming up ahead.

So definitely stay tuned. All right. Our very first question comes from a listener named Amy,

and this is about goals and pregnancy. Amy writes, hi Sarah. I'm a longtime listener of both your

podcast projects and love hearing you

breakdown planning strategies. As 2023 approaches, I'm starting to brainstorm goals for the new year,

but I'm also expecting my second child in January. Do you have any tips, tricks, or thoughts on

setting manageable goals for a coming year that I know will be chaotic. I love this question because I do think it emphasizes

the fact that every year is not created equally when it comes to setting goals. I actually feel like

I am finally in a stage of life with all of my kids five and above, which feels weird to say, but it's true,

that I can set some bigger goals and be more confident that I can, you know, give attention to more

than one goal at once, for example. There have been years of my life where my primary goal was just,

you know, keeping a baby alive and getting enough sleep to do the minimal needed

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