Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

Today we are going to talk about a 2025 mid-year review because the timing is just

too perfect. This episode airs on June 30th. Actually, the mid-year doesn't happen for two days,

so you have a little time to plan ahead, I guess, if you're interested in doing your mid-year

in the exact center of

2025. But it's definitely the time that people are starting to realize, oh, my goodness,

2025 did not just start. All of those things I put on my list for annual goals at the beginning

of the year. It's getting real to actually make sure I am looking at that list and thinking about

whether or not I still want them to come to fruition. I hope today's episode is going to be the

last one where my voice sounds a little bit off. I am still recovering from a mild viral

something, but hopefully next week I'll sound totally like myself.

All right. So where are we? We are smack dab in the middle of 2025. And today I'm going to give

some tips on how you might decide to conduct a mid-year review. And then I'm going to do my own

demo where I go through my 2025 goals, which I copied and

pasted from where I have them saved in Apple Notes.

And I'm going to go through on air one by one as to how I'm doing with these goals.

Full disclosure, I've already done that to some extent on Best of Both Worlds, where I co-host

that podcast with Laura Vandercam,

and we do do a mid-year review each year. So this isn't the first time I've run through them.

But at the same time, usually I kind of look at everything in advance when I am doing a podcast

episode and I have not re-reviewed these. So it's going to be a little bit off the cuff, a little bit more

kind of in real time, me processing where I am with some of my goals. And therefore, I hope it will

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