Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast

where we talk to all things planning and planning adjacent. Today we're going to talk about

heading into a busy season, and I often do the episodes that I need to hear most.

So let me just take you into my life right now and explain what my busy season looks like that I am currently headed into.

Actually, let's zoom out for a second.

I know that for many of you, for various reasons, the next few months are going to be more

packed than average. And I think there's two reasons for that. Number one, people often have a lot of

school-related activities. If you have kids of any age, anything end of year is happening. Plus,

there's often like even a current planning

for the next year. Like I have scheduled a meeting to figure out my kids courses for the next

year already while we're still wrapping up this year. You have celebrations, you have wrap

ups. If there's shows, there may be more rehearsals. But then it's often a really busy season in different

workplaces as well. I know in the financial sector or anyone who has anything to do with taxes,

April can be absolutely crazy in the United States. And depending on where you work and where they

end their fiscal year, my health system's fiscal year

actually ends on May 1st. So I know there's a lot of things that need to be like loose ends that need to be

tied up on the administrative end for that. So this is just very commonly a time when people have a lot

on their calendars. But personally, I also have noticed that I have more travel scheduled

in the next like six weeks than I think I've ever had in a concentrated period ever before.

And just I'm not going to give you specific dates or anything like that, but just to give you

a taste, we're going to Disney World.

So that's super fun. We're going with my sister and, of course, the kids and my niece, and we're

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