Hello and welcome to episode five of Best Slide Plans, the podcast where we talk all about planning and planning methods and planners and all things related to planning.

I am very excited this morning. I am actually

recording this early in the morning. So I don't know. That's kind of fun. Got some

planning energy going on right now. We are going to attack some Q&As. You guys sent me lots of

amazing questions. And my plan was always to do a Q&A episode approximately every four episodes where I just

answer questions.

And so you can continue to submit those.

You can send them either as comments on my blog, the shoebox.com, T-H-U-B-O-X.com,

or just leave me a comment on Instagram, which is at the

underscore shoebox or at shoebox underscore plans. So any of those places, I will definitely get your

questions. And usually I will respond. And I obviously keep a collection of them to feature some of them on the

podcast. So thank you so much for sending those in and you can continue to send those my way.

All right. So without too much blathering on, I will go into these questions.

All right, number one is, I'd love to hear a minute-by-minute description of when you do your

planning, the daily stuff and the longer stuff. I have a feeling some of this is in the early

morning, but I'm not sure. We'd love all the details, coffee drinking, and all. You are correct

that coffee is involved in my planning rituals. I love coffee and I am addicted to it.

So I definitely start my day with a cup of black coffee every single day. And I have since I was about 15 years old. So there's that.

So I do plan for the most part in the morning. And I will say that planning is not a

one and done sort of ritual. So you can't just say like, oh, I planned for the day. So I'm done.

You really need to be looking at your list and updating them throughout the day. But you're right.

There is like that one moment when you sit down and plan out exactly how you're

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