Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is Sarah Hardunger and you're listening to

the podcast about all things planners and planning related. This episode is another kind of

bonus deep dive episode today.

As you guys know, I typically have kind of a rotation where I have Q&A episodes, alternating

with reviews, and guests.

But there were five weeks in January, so I think you get an extra deep dive.

So this is a bonus.

Stay tuned because the rest of February, and I know this is

coming out in February, but sorry, I guess I'm a way about a week ahead. You're going to be getting

some really fun interview episodes coming up. So there's a little teaser there. But today,

we're going to talk a little bit about some odds and ends, as well as planning and anticipation, which is a topic

that is near and dear to my heart, because I learned, I think, from Laura Vandercam, who's my

podcast co-host on the other podcast I'm on, Best of Both Worlds, that many times when we have a fun

event, there are multiple sort of ways we can enjoy that event.

There is the experiencing self where you are enjoying the event as it is unfolding.

There is the remembering self when you get to look back on the event and think about the fun

memories that you had. And then there's the anticipating self. And that is a self that for me tends to be kind of a really

strong part of my being. I love to look forward. I love to plan. That should be no secret to any

of you. And yet in these pandemic times, that anticipating self has been really kind of

sidelined. And I think at first I didn't mind because it was just like, you know what, survival that anticipating self has been really kind of sidelines.

And I think at first I didn't mind because it was just like, you know what, survival mode.

But survival mode's been lasting a really, really long time.

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