Planner Peace + Efficiency Hacks from Seasoned Professor Sarah McConnell EP 261

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

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

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's not QUITE back to school season, but depending on where you live, it may be closer than you think! In today's episode, Sarah interviews Sarah McConnell, a professor of anatomy and histology for undergrads, graduate students and med students. Professor Sarah McConnell shares own current planner peace lineup and functional system, and then provides some fantastic tips for others in academic, from using templates to leaving helpful breadcrumbs so that each year builds on past experience without friction. Planner Sarah mentions: Proaction Planner https://www.alifemadesimple.com/proaction-planner/ BLP Review of Proaction Planner:https://theshubox.com/2022/01/blp-ep-79-qa-proaction-planner-review.html Newsletter: theshubox.com/newsletterCourses: theshubox.com/courses Episode Sponsors IXL: Learning doesn't have to stop in the summer! Best Laid Plans listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at ⁠⁠⁠⁠ixl.com/plans⁠⁠⁠⁠. Green Chef: Make this summer your healthiest yet with Green Chef. Head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠greenchef.com/50BESTLAID⁠⁠⁠⁠ and use code 50BESTLAID to get 50% off your first month, then 20% off for two months with free shipping. PrepDish: Healthy menu plans and prep instruction to take the mental load out of dinner! Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠PrepDish.com/plans⁠⁠⁠⁠ for your first 2 weeks, FREE. Mint: Affordable unlimited wireless! Get your new customer offer and your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for $15 a month at ⁠⁠⁠⁠mintmobile.com/BLP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to best laid plans.
0:11.3	This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.
0:18.0	I couldn't decide when to air this episode because it is done with a teacher as a guest.
0:25.2	So there's a little bit of back to school theming in there and I know those of you in the
0:29.5	Northeast are like, excuse me, back to school, that is very far away. However, I decided to
0:36.5	air it now because those of us who are not in the Northeast
0:40.5	might have school coming sooner than we think. This episode is airing on July 28th. And if you live in
0:47.2	South Florida, your school might be starting in just two weeks, which means if you're a teacher,
0:53.1	you might be starting in just one.
0:55.7	So believe it or not, we are closer to that season.
0:59.5	Then you might think depending on where you live.
1:02.2	And then, of course, we have lots of international listeners who have all different kinds
1:06.5	of school calendars.
1:07.5	I've had the pleasure of learning about the Australian school calendar and
1:11.9	the British system, et cetera. So everyone's different. And so since I had this delightful
1:17.1	conversation, I decided to air it for now at the very end of July. I do have more back-to-school
1:24.6	related content coming up. This is a fun season when it comes to planning and
1:29.7	organizing. I'll be sharing about a planner that I think I'm going to have my rising sixth grader
1:35.5	try using next year. He is on board with it so far. I'm going to talk about a really unusual
1:41.8	daily planner that a listener sent to me that's a lot of fun.
1:45.6	We'll be talking about some household organization strategies and all those kinds of fun things
1:51.0	as we gear up for another busy academic year, at least in our house.
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