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.

I have a bit of a mixed bag episode for you.

I was thinking I might have a guest this week,

but I think she's going to be next week. So today we are just going to talk a little bit of Q&A,

a little bit of sharing what's going on with me this year, and a more detailed planner piece

submission that I am excited to share. So let's go ahead and get started. Our planner piece submission

comes from Liz, and she writes, I wanted to share because I have finally settled into a system that is

working really well right now. I am a physician at an academic medical center, and my time

is split between clinical care and research, which includes

two very different types of projects. I also have three young kids. Okay, this is Sarah again.

I have to pause because her life sounds a lot like mine in many ways. I also have my time split,

although now it's between clinical care and podcasting creative work. And I also have three kids,

although they are quickly getting to the point where I could call them like youngish kids.

My youngest is now five. So it's kind of coming out of the woods on that one. All right. Back to our

planner piece. She writes, I started using the planner pad thanks to this podcast and love being able to list

out weekly tasks both by category and then assign them to a day. However, I was finding that I would

list too many tasks per week and then have to copy them forward. The planner pad people suggest a

cumbersome system that involves folding over or tearing off the top corner to track undone

items. But I have moved on. Instead, I now use an accessory notebook to hold my yearly and seasonal

goals, which I do January, May, and September in the front, and list of to-does by project in the back,

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