When Things Don't Go As Planned (and Why You Should Plan Anyway!)

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

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Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sarah shares her recent 'not according to plan' experience with flu/COVID, and then Laura and Sarah discuss what happens when things don't unfold as they anticipated. Both make a case for planning anyway - though "plan tightly, then lightly" might apply to the near vs farther future. They discuss backup plans, anticipating problems, resilient scheduling and more.

They also pop in with a little 2023 goals update!

In the Q&A, a listener writes in asking about how to best handle transitions. She'd like to read, but finds it hard to focus in small bursts and she's tired because she has toddlers! Sarah and Laura offer suggestions and alternatives.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their
0:22.6	flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start
0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist,
0:38.3	and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side.
0:44.3	We are two working parents who love our careers and our families.
0:47.3	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun.
0:53.3	From figuring out child care
0:55.1	to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life.
1:02.3	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This is episode 288 airing in early February of
1:08.7	2023. Our topic is when things don't go as planned, because as we all
1:13.5	know, life does not always go as planned. And we say this as people who love to plan. However,
1:19.4	I don't think there's nearly as much tension between those two concepts as it is often made out to be
1:24.3	that, you know, we plan even though life doesn't go as planned.
1:27.6	And there's really still some upsides to planning, even when life doesn't go as planned, which we will talk about.
1:33.0	But speaking of things not going as planned, Sarah recently recovered from a rather lovely illness, which of course, illnesses are never really planned.
1:40.8	And they never really come at perfect moments, right?
1:42.6	How did you deal with that?
1:45.8	Yeah, I like tested positive for everything. I mean, it was more, I wanted to see if I had flu
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