Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is Sarah Hart Unger and you are at the podcast where we talk about all things planning and planning adjacent.

Today's episode is going to be all about the quintile. Now,

those of you who are familiar with my work on other podcasts or have been listening for a while,

you may know what I'm talking about when I say quintile. However, this is not a word that has made

it into the mainstream vernacular, so I guess I will do a little

bit of an introduction here.

So I have decided that the year should be divided up instead of into four quarters, as is more

common, into five quintiles.

And the reason that we're doing this episode today is that for me, the end of my first

quintile is right around now. I'll talk about why I say

around now because there's not really an exact date this year because it depends on my kids'

spring breaks and my kids have two different spring breaks. So anyway, but most of you as this

errors are also headed into quarter to if you plan by quarters. So since we do align this

time as we might at other times and we might not at other times, I thought this would be an

opportune moment to have this discussion. Now, before I get into what each of the quintiles are,

I have to say, I don't think my planning mechanisms for each quintile are as robust as some of my rituals and rhythms that go along with the months or the weeks or the days or even the years.

There is no accident as to why I've already discussed many of those other things.

And in case you are a new listener and are interested in going into deep dives of each of these

kind of planning intervals, I discussed daily planning on episode number 28, weekly planning on

episode number two. That was very early in one of the first episodes I recorded for this podcast,

and that's probably because my weekly plan is the one I am most solidified in and feel very

confident about,

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