Hello and welcome to Best Lay Plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

Today, I'm going to talk a little bit about planning summer. I have done an episode before that was called Planning Your Summer, and I'm going to talk a little bit about planning summer.

I have done an episode before that was called Planning Your Summer, and I can link to that episode.

And I'm trying to not make this a complete repeat of that, but instead to talk a little bit about some of the planning elements that we might do specific to summer.

Because the more I think about my planning process and the planning process that I've been teaching to others, the more I think about how different seasons just

inherently have different rhythms. And the planning that we do for a season like summer is going to have

some similarities with the planning we might do for a season like back to school, but there's

also going to be some unique elements that are going to repeat themselves year after year.

So one of the takeaways that I've had from teaching Best Laid Plants Academy is that it can be

useful to build kind of a seasonal specific list of things you want to think about with each season

because it's pretty likely that year after year you want to think about with each season because it's pretty

likely that year after year you may be thinking about some of the same things. And so this is something

that might be valuable to collect in some kind of a digital format, almost like a template of the

things that you like to do when you're planning each season. And I think summer can be a wonderful place

to start with this just because summer does have some very unique things about it. If you have

kids, they're not going to be in school. If you don't have kids, there still tends to be a more

kind of feeling of freedom or less structure. Some businesses even have slightly different

schedules during the summertime. And in most businesses, things are just a little bit more chill

than they are, say, during Q1 of the year. So yeah, I think summer deserves its own special

consideration, although I do think seasonal planning should be done

for every single season of your life, whether you divide your year into four seasons or trimesters

or quintiles like me. But if you've never done it before, I encourage you to perhaps think about

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