It’s time to plan your year for the best year ever in 2022! Sarah Hart Unger, practicing physician and host of the podcast Best Laid Plans is the fourth guest on The Secrets of Supermom Show podcast series HOW TO PLAN YOUR BEST YEAR EVER.
Every day for the first week of 2022, a new guest expert joins host Lori Oberbroeckling to share the secrets, the strategies, and the tools she uses to plan her best year ever. Best-selling authors, CEOs and COOs of million-dollar corporations, women running six-figure side-hustles while working full time, podcasters, bloggers, and more join us to spill it all. You do not want to miss a single episode of this amazing series!
Today’s guest, Sarah Hart Unger, is a practicing physician, mother of 3, and has been posting her musings on the internet since 2004 (!). She hosts her own podcast on “all things planning and planning-adjacent”, Best Laid Plans, and also co-hosts Best of Both Worlds along with author and speaker Laura Vanderkam. She is passionate about planning as a tool to help you get the most out of life!
Sarah shares with us the best tips to plan your year including…
- “Reflection season” during the last two months of the year
- The idea of a planning retreat with your partner (and OMG I want to do one of these!)
- The magic of “quintiles” instead of quarters and why this makes SO MUCH sense for working parents
- Why Sarah does NOT meticulously plan out the entire year on January 1
- The secret of a planning ritual (as in daily) to make sure that you consistently stay with goals you set
- Why Sarah loves resolutions and why your goals should actually be fun!
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Show Notes: Plan Your Year with Sarah Hart Unger
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Hey, hey friend! Welcome to Episode #43 of The Secrets of Supermom Show!
If you have been enjoying this series from the start, welcome! I hope you are loving it as much as I am! If you are jumping in new, let me fill you in on this special series. This week, starting on January 1st, 2022 all the way through January 7th we have a new guest every day sharing with us How to Plan Your Best Year Ever.
Over these seven days, we will hear from seven experts on time-management, productivity, planning, goal-setting, and simply being a supermom. I am talking to best-selling authors, CEOs and COOs of million-dollar corporations, women running six-figure side-hustles while working full time, podcasters, bloggers, and more. They will share with us how they personally plan their best year ever. Get ready to feel excited, inspired, motivated, and ready for your best year ever.
If you missed the first three episodes, you can head back to…
- Episode #40 and hear from Christy Wright No.1 national best-selling author, personal development expert, and host of The Christy Wright Show
- Episode #41 and hear from Holly Marie Haynes entrepreneur, corporate strategist, top 100 podcaster, and creator of the Crush the Rush quarterly business planner
- Episode #42 and hear from Brittany Werth, triplet mom and COO of Simplified by Emily Ley
Today, Sarah Hart Unger joins us. I first heard Sarah on the Best of Both Worlds podcast where she co-hosts with Laura Vanderkam. Y’all might have heard me mention Laura in the past since I love her book 168 Hours. (We’ll have to try to get her on the podcast in the future.) They talk all about loving your career while at the same time loving your family and how to thrive in both. Totally up our alley, amiright?!
Anyway, through listening to Best of Both Worlds, I found out that Sarah had her own podcast specifically focused on planning called Best Laid Plans. Be still my planner-loving heart.
So, when I had this big idea for this series, Sarah was literally one of the first people that came to my mind. So, I crossed my fingers that she would say yes, and am just so grateful she did.
Not only does Sarah host two podcasts, but has been posting on her website theshubox.com since 2004, is a practicing physician, and is a mother of 3. Y’all she is a true supermom and passionate about planning as a tool to help you get the most out of life! She is literally the perfect guest for this series.
Friends, if you love this episode and this series, I would sure love for you to share it with a friend. And if you have been really loving it, I would appreciate nothing more than a rating and review on your favorite podcast platform. The more moms living their best life, the better.
I am thrilled to introduce you to Sarah Hart Unger.
Y’all, before we dive into the show, I have a special treat for you. After this amazing podcast series ends, I have a free workshop for you on January 10th. It is called, you guessed it, How to Plan Your Best Year Ever, and it walks you through a step-by-step plan combining tried and true methods with some of the strategies from our brilliant guests to plan your very best year. You can grab your seat right now, it’s totally free! The link to join is www.secretsofsupermom.com/workshop.
This workshop is for you if…
You want to start saying NO to things that don’t light you up.
You want to feel more organized and less overwhelmed.
You want more time for YOU.
You want to set a big goal and actually reach it.
You want to better manage your time and your energy.
You want to live this year feeling peace and happiness, ready for even bigger things.
Let’s make 2022 the year you find a purpose, create a plan, and crush it. I cannot wait to see you there! Let’s get on with the show!
Plan Your Year with Sarah Hart Unger
In today’s episode, we discuss…
- “Reflection season” during the last two months of the year
- The idea of a planning retreat with your partner (and OMG I want to do one of these!)
- The magic of “quintiles” instead of quarters and why this makes SO MUCH sense for working parents
- How to use the concept of quintiles to plan out your entire year
- Nested goals and how daily goals fit inside weekly goals which fit inside monthly goals which fit inside annual goals
- Why Sarah does NOT meticulously plan out the entire year on January 1
- How you can use an end of year brainstorm of goals to regularly and flexibly reflect on your goals over and over again throughout the year
- The secret of a planning ritual (as in daily) to make sure that you consistently stay with goals you set
- Using a weekly planner for past, present, and future
- Why knowing your time of life might impact whether you would like an annual, quarterly, weekly or daily planner
- Why Sarah loves resolutions and why your goals should actually be fun!
- The critical importance of planning time to plan
- Some of Sarah’s favorite tools and planners mentioned in the episode
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