Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.

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

planning, planners, and anything related.

Today we're going to talk a little bit

about rest which in some ways is kind of the antithesis of all that planning but I

think it can sometimes be overlooked and in this busy season is probably something

that needs a little bit of attention maybe just permission so we're gonna

delve in a little bit to the idea of doing

less for a little bit. I am currently reading a book called Do Nothing by Celeste Headley, which is

really interesting, and I'm not all the way through, so I don't want this to be a full review.

But it's about our work-heavy culture and how many people really eschew idleness as something terrible,

whereas maybe as humans it's very good for us to spend some time doing a little bit more nothing,

which is laying back, watching TV, connecting with others, getting more sleep, relaxing and socializing.

This time of year, it's so easy to become overwhelming.

In pre-COVID years, there were so many social gatherings and expectations.

And a lot of those are maybe still present in some form, some of which are easier,

and some of which are just as stressful in different ways.

The holidays usually produce a lot of deadlines at work, where you're trying to get things done

frantically before the holiday season, or perhaps you have just as many monthly meetings,

but they're crammed into two or three weeks instead of all four.

For me, the time change always makes me really, really tired. My kids struggle with adjusting

their sleep and therefore, so do I. And I think just the darkness can also add to a sense of

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