Monthly Planning Rhythms + Completist Mini-Review EP 252

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is dedicated to monthly planning rhythms! Sarah discusses why the monthly planning level can be a challenging one, but then provides reasons to try giving it some attention! Elements Discussed: - Ways to add to the "fresh start" energy - screen backgrounds + monthly tracking- Monthly work plan (new element for Sarah!)- Monthly goal setting (middle piece of the Nested Goals method - great way to break up big seasonal projects), including a look back / forward / within, and a calendar landscape review- Monthly "extras" - might include budget, household supply maintenance, fitness ideas, library holds, adding in fun, and more! Prior episodes mentioning Monthly Planning:#17 - https://theshubox.com/2024/09/episode-218-your-new-month-guide.html#218 - https://theshubox.com/2020/11/blp-ep-17-monthly-review.html Completist Products Mentioned (no affiliation):Weekly Planning Pad: https://www.the-completist.com/collections/planner-pads/products/andalucia-weekly-planner-padDaily Planner: https://www.the-completist.com/collections/daily-plannersMonthly Planner: https://www.the-completist.com/collections/month-plannersNewsletter signup: theshubox.com/newsletterBLP Live in Nov (ONE slot as of posting this!): theshubox.com/blplive Episode Sponsors: PrepDish: Convenient meal plans, recipes, and shopping lists to reduce your weekly mental load! Visit ⁠⁠⁠prepdish.com/plans⁠⁠⁠ for your first 2 weeks, FREE Mint Mobile: Low-cost wireless phone service – a great way to save every single month! Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠mintmobile.com/BLP⁠⁠⁠ IXL: Tailored and effective online learning (my kids have used this for years as part of their school curriculum)! Best Laid Plans listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at⁠⁠⁠ IXL.com/PLANS⁠⁠⁠. Green Chef: The best meal kit for eating well. Visit ⁠⁠⁠greenchef.com/bestlaidfree⁠⁠⁠ and use code bestlaidfree to get started with FREE salads for 2 months plus 50% off your first box. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Best Slaved Plans.
0:11.2	This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning
0:15.3	and planning adjacent.
0:17.3	Today we are going to talk about The Month, Rhythms and Revisited, a topic that I've
0:22.6	definitely mentioned before, but I feel overdue and a block of time in which my thinking has
0:28.6	definitely really evolved and I feel like shifted over time.
0:32.7	So excited to talk about that.
0:34.4	And I'm also going to give a mini review of a product that actually has a monthly
0:39.2	product. So I thought it would fit in really nicely. So we're going to begin, I think, with our
0:45.4	discussion of the month. And as we do this episode, we are at the end of May. So I did time this
0:52.5	so that perhaps you could apply some of these lessons to planning
0:55.6	out your June. Now, you may also be headed into a new season in June. It's hard to know. That
1:01.7	kind of depends on how you decide to define your seasons. For me, I consider the start of season
1:07.6	three or quintile three to be when my kids finish school, which is going to be
1:11.2	a few days into June. But for some of you, you may not have a seasonal cut point anywhere in
1:16.3	sight. So June 1st will be kind of the closest fresh start that you have. And I think the season
1:22.3	timing is worth mentioning here because the month can get a little bit lost kind of between the seasonal planning,
1:30.5	which feels a little bit more natural for some people, because rhythms are just changing,
1:35.6	the weather is changing, you just feel a natural shift, and then you have the week,
1:39.8	which for most of us really kind of drives the architecture of our lives. We have the days in which we work, the days in which we relax, hopefully for most of us really kind of drives the architecture of our lives. We have the days in which we
1:45.1	work, the days in which we relax. Hopefully for most of us, that's at least two days of getting a weekend.
1:51.1	I know, I know those of you who are listening to this who are maybe in residency or doing some
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