Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify

and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more. Friends, I'm very delighted to bring

you today's episode with Sarah Hart Unger. Sarah is absolutely wonderful. She has a new book

called Best Laid Plans, a simple planning system for living a life that you love.

I will link up a couple of former episodes with Sarah, including creating tactical and restorative routines and perfectly imperfect planning.

She is just such a lovely voice always. And I think the best way to set up this conversation is to read an excerpt from her book.

Sarah writes,

What if instead of greeting each day, with confusion about the day's priorities and schedule,

you had a clearly laid out plan, complete with breathing room for rest and time for fun. Imagine a day where

instead of reacting to stimuli every few minutes, you were able to proactively make incremental

progress towards your core goals, both personal and professional. Imagine no longer dreading Mondays,

but instead entering into the workweek feeling confident that your curated calendar

reflects reality and that your task list is current, realistic, and designed to help you move forward

in ways that support your true priorities. And finally, imagine ultimately realizing those previously

mentioned dreams by moving and iterating incrementally toward the career or life that you always

wanted, with room for some discovery and even serendipity along the way. In this episode, Sarah

will address this vision and a whole lot more. Let's get right to it. Hello, Sarah. I am so

excited to have you back on the mic. Welcome.

Thank you so much for having me. I don't know how long it's been, but I always just have fun chatting with you.

Oh, I love that. The feeling is mutual. And I was just, I'll tell listeners, because we were just talking before we went official that you have been requested multiple times to come back. And I realized we have two other fantastic interviews in the

bank. So I'm going to link those in the show notes. So if people get to the end and they're like,

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