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.

If I sound a little bit different, or if you are watching this on video, well, there you go.

That is what makes this episode a little bit different from my typical episodes.

I have done a couple of YouTube videos in the past where I've shown my planner stack,

but I have always done those separate from my recording of my episodes.

The reason for that is that I think the sound quality in my, the main part of my

house isn't quite as good as the sound quality in my closet. But my closet really does not make

for a very nice backdrop and it has terrible lighting. So I decided for today, we're going to maybe

let the sound quality be a little bit less than optimum, but hopefully still pretty good.

And I'm going to do a video version of

this episode by trying out one of the apps that allows you to record both. So here we go. I'm going

to be sharing my planner stack from last year, or really from this year, I'm recording this,

and it's going to air in early December. and I have my planner stack that I've been using

for the back half of 2025. And then I also have the tools and the physical tools specifically

that I plan on using in 2026. So you can compare what I ended up with for 2025 to the stack that

I showed in my YouTube video for last year, if you'd like, definitely some

changes. I went through a pretty tumultuous period in the spring. You guys have heard about

kind of the health stuff I went through at that time. And honestly, I needed a fresh start,

which does sometimes happen. And so I ended up shifting my tools a little bit. But I think

what I ended up with really worked quite well for me.

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