Hello and welcome to Best Lead Plans.

This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

This episode was inspired by an episode of The Productive Woman, which is a show

that is run by attorney Laura McClellan that I have really enjoyed as of late, and I am

actually working to get Laura on Best Lead plans, so hopefully that will be coming your way

soon. But she did an episode recently that I think was inspired by others in the content

production world, whatever this is. I guess some people on YouTube were doing episodes

with the theme of top 10 rules for life. So she decided to do her own top 10 rules for

productivity. I believe she called it top 10 rules for peaceful productivity.

And I just thought that was such a fun topic. And of course, it got my mind spinning about what

my top 10 rules would be for life. So this is a little bit of a planner adjacent episode.

I'm not going to do any formal planner reviews in this one, in part because I have

so many really fun planner products on order, but none of them have arrived at my doorstep yet.

So actually, I'm kind of waiting on some reviews. So in the meantime, I thought this would be a

really, really fun one to do. Of course, my rules are not the end allall be-all. Everyone's going to have their own rules,

but I think sometimes it's fun for us to learn from each other and share what they would pick

for their top 10 of this incredibly deep and lofty topic. All right, some of mine are planning

related, some of them are not. But the first one kind of is. And rule number one is control your inputs. Now, this rule has a number of meetings. Part of that has to do with setting boundaries and deciding what you are going to let into your life, such as decide how much news you want to watch,

decide how much social media you want to consume, and also decide who gets to notify you and when,

which a lot of times these days really, really means managing your phone and its settings

and how you allow that to grab your attention at any one time. You guys know

I've done a deep dive into my tumultuous past relationship with social media and I still remain

...