Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is your host Sarah Hart Unger and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent. And today we are going to plan a week together. You guys know I have experimented with doing things

a little bit live on the podcast before. In the past, I have cleaned out my email inbox,

kind of, I wouldn't say live on the air, but recorded on the air and kind of went through the

highlights and how long everything took. And today, we're

going to go through the steps of weekly planning together as if I were planning the upcoming week.

Now, to be incredibly honest, I am not actually doing this in real time because I do most of my

weekly planning on the weekends. And on the weekends, my house is really loud and chaotic

because the kids are home and things are a little bit crazy. And so I wasn't able to actually do this

live on the air, but I'm going to do a bit of a reenactment and maybe an even more detailed version.

And those of you who have read the book or who have seen my planning checklists, you can kind of follow along, but

otherwise, you can even use this recording as a checklist of sorts if you were looking for

inspiration on how to systematically plan your week. I'm also going to share screenshots of

what the week looked like, both in terms of the board we use to communicate with the family

and also what my planner

looked like that week. And interestingly, this episode is airing on Monday. Let's see,

today's the ninth as I'm recording this. So it's airing in exactly one week. And therefore,

you'll have been able to see kind of exactly what was planned in the prior week.

So that does, you know, eliminate any stocking possibilities because by the time this comes out,

everything's already happened. That's good. But also I want to give you a little disclaimer in

that this is kind of a wild week. And I know many weeks are wild weeks. You know, we have vacation

weeks and we act like every week is the same. But really, there's almost always some kind of variation. But really, this week is an

anomaly. And I say that especially because I'm actually going away for two nights during this week.

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