Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

Now I have done some episodes in the past where I go through my planning process for various timeframes.

I know I've done one for the month and I've done one for the week. I've even emptied my email

inbox on the air. I mean, I paused it. You didn't get a real time rendering of that little

activity because that would have been a pretty long episode, but you get what I'm saying.

I've gotten some positive feedback on these episodes and you guys have asked for more with

different seasons or different months or time frames covered. So I figured today I would go through

kind of a live version of me planning my summer. Now this is a little bit of an artistic rendering. Planning takes

time. I sat and did this activity this morning, and it took me about an hour, maybe a little bit

more, and I didn't want to subject anyone to an episode that featured long swaths of silence

while I thought through various things. So instead, I'm going to walk you

through the tools I used, the questions I asked myself and my answers, and you can absolutely

use this episode to play along and think through your summer as it is coming up as well.

All you need is your planning materials of choice and then just plan to hit pause on this recording

when you want time to fill out your own kind of fields and go through the planning of your summer.

All right. So what materials did I use? Well, I used my little planning by season workbook,

which goes through all the questions that I'm going to talk about

in a minute, as well as my planner, which has a copy of my annual goals in it, as well as my

seasonal goals, since I did need to go ahead and look back on some of those for the exercise.

And that's pretty much it. I used this on pen. Didn't consult a lot of electronic references or anything like that.

Yeah, but I went ahead and got started and I feel like I've got a pretty good framework going.

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