Where Planning Rituals and Time Management Collide: Interview with Laura Vanderkam EP 121

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sarah welcomes Laura back onto Best Laid Plans for this fun episode about her planning techniques. Laura recently released a book called Tranquility By Tuesday, which includes a set of 9 rules to help readers enjoy their 'regular' days even more. 3 of the rules are very planning adjacent, so they are discussed in detail on this episode! The rules are: Plan on Fridays Batch the Little Things Create a Backup Slot To learn about the other 6, go to lauravanderkam.com! You can also find her on Best of Both Worlds (with Sarah) and solo every single day on Before Breakfast. Episode Sponsors: Organize 365: To learn more about Lisa Woodruff’s work and her amazing offerings, check out organize365.com, or go to organize365.com/minicourse for a free 7 days minicourse on getting yourself organized! My Life in a Book: Put together a wonderful keepsake with your loved one. To save $10 off your first purchase, visit mylifeinabook.com and use discount code PLANS135. Financial Gym: Individualized personal training – for your financial fitness. For more information, go to financialgym.com/plans for more info and use code plans to get 20% off your first year of membership! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Best Laid Plans.
0:10.4	This is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.
0:14.3	And this is your host, Sarah Hart Unger.
0:16.3	If I sound a little bit different today, it is because I am actually on a podcasting type retreat
0:22.8	with my podcasting partner from Best of Both Worlds, Laura Bandercam. Laura, would you like to say
0:28.6	hi? Hi, everybody. I'm really excited to be here as a guest on best laid plans. Sarah and I are
0:34.9	sitting together on a sofa in her hotel room, which is kind of cool to be having this experience versus just looking at each other via squadcast camera. So great to be here.
0:44.9	Yeah, it's so much fun to do these things live. I will say it does take some of planning to put these types of experiences into play, but they are always worth it.
0:52.8	This is actually our second retreat of this
0:55.1	kind, and I'm sure there will be many in the future. So I was super excited to have Laura on
1:00.2	Best Lay Plans because she wrote, well, she's written many books. Laura is a fantastic author
1:06.2	of many nonfiction books about time and enjoying our lives, I would say is kind of the theme of
1:12.4	her work, thoughtfully enjoying our lives.
1:15.7	Thoughtfully.
1:16.2	I like that.
1:16.7	I like that.
1:17.9	And her last release, which came out just about a month ago, is called Tranquility by Tuesday,
1:23.2	in which she comes up with nine rules that she tested out on a population of people to put into
1:29.8	place that help them enjoy their kind of everyday lives a little bit more.
1:33.9	And some of those rules, to me, were screaming, planning, planning, planning.
1:37.9	So I was super excited to have her come on and talk about her book and some of those rules
1:42.4	in particular.
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