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 I am very excited to be coming to you today on the first of the month. Obviously, Monday is not typically the first of the month. And I guess probably statistically, one-seventh of the start of each month's happen on a Monday. But it always feels a little bit special and elevated when that does occur like you're starting with a fresh start

in two ways at once. And this month, hopefully with its auspicious beginning, will be a good one

for all of us. So welcome to June. This is your official welcome if you are listening to this

podcast on the day that it comes out. And just a little update as to what's going around here.

As I talked through my summer planning last week, we are really headed in to actual summer

around our household. The kids are finishing up school. And June, I see as a very, like,

quiet but fun summer routine sort of a month for us. We have zero travel,

which is somewhat of an anomaly. It's been a very travel heavy year, but I have no weekends

away, no trips, no big things really at all happening this month. And honestly, I'm very much

looking forward to that stretch. I do have a week of call. The kids are going

to be in camp. Some of their activities are going to be less. So yeah, quieter, fun, but in a more

low-key way. So I'm definitely looking forward to this month. And I also have a little side project

of my own as I talked about. I really want this to be a very family focused season

but my one kind of personal non-work project is going to be getting back into the gym like the

physical actual gym rather than working out with weights at home for the first time in

probably close to two decades so I'm very excited about that and it goes very well with one

of the products that I'm going to talk about in this episode.

I know I've been kind of teasing you a physical analog review episode in a while, and we finally have one today.

We're going to talk about a workout journal that a listener sent to me in detail that is very affordable, very accessible, and might be a fun way to add a little bit

of fresh start energy to your summer, as well as a big behemoth of a daily planner, just in case

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