Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

If I sound any different today, it is because I'm recording from a hotel room in Seattle, where my husband and I are on a quick trip to celebrate a big milestone in his college best friend's son's life.

So this has been really, really fun.

And I have snagged the opportunity to bring on a special guest, which we'll get to in just a minute.

But before we do that, I just wanted to, I have a few

planner piece segments built up and they're fantastic. And so I did not want to do this episode

without including one of them. And this one comes from Ursula, who gave me permission to use

her beautiful name. It was such a unique name that I didn't want to do it without her letting

me. But she said it was okay. And she has a

unique system that she has going on. So I am going to share her note. She writes, first of all,

congratulations on the New York Times shout out. Yes, the best played plans is all about the

psychology of planning and how to develop a system that works for your brain. Your podcast gives

listeners permission to find the system that works best for them without needing to follow any one system.

Since listening to your podcast, I've thought a lot about my planner piece, and I think I was

looking for piece inside a particular planning system when all along I was finding my own piece

inside the system I created for myself. I use a vertical weekly planner and I'm

always looking for a portable A5 size because I carry it with me always. I like to have enough

room and pages for my weekly dinner menu, monthly budgeting, and planning out my daily

outfits, which takes so much stress off of my getting ready routine in the mornings,

in addition to tracking family schedules and my to-dos.

I'm currently in a commit 30 standard size, but have a she plans undated weekly and a scribbles

that matter dot cross-planter to consider for 2023. My husband and I share a digital calendar to track

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