Best Laid Plans - by Sarah Hart-Unger (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Stop running on auto-pilot and make the most of every day with intentional planning!

Every moment matters when you have big goals for your family, career, and the community you're committed to. Between kids' schedules, work meetings, anniversary trips, the occasional date night, and squeezing in a quick gym session, it's easy to get overwhelmed! The constant barrage of obligations and to-dos is exhausting--especially for women who are also managing the mental load in most areas of family life. We end up stuck in routines and habits that don't serve us, as our dreams seem to slip further and further away.

What if, instead of greeting each day in a scramble to keep up, there was a clearly laid out plan, complete with breathing room for rest and fun? In Best Laid Plans, Dr. Sarah Hart-Unger offers an intuitive planning method for setting audacious goals, working with the natural rhythms of your life in every season, and bringing a sense of peace and joy back to every day.

With Best Laid Plans, you'll learn:

• How to create and accomplish nested goals for every year, month, week, and day
• The magic of planning in seasonal quintiles, or five seasons instead of four
• The airtight task management method for handling all of those pesky to-dos
• How to fill each day with meaningful moments of connection and delight

Discover a simple way to make the most of every day and live your best life.

Review Quotes

"Best Laid Plans is a masterclass in planning--thoughtful, thorough, and deeply kind. Ideas abound for the organizational newbie and aficionado alike. If you enjoy planning even a little, you will devour this book." -- Kendra Adachi, New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, and The PLAN

"I'll confess to being a planning skeptic, having tried too many systems promising infinite productivity while delivering only extra stress (and eating up time, because of how much work it took to administer them). But Sarah Hart-Unger's uniquely thoughtful approach points the way to a life of calm intentionality, grounded in the reality of our human limitations, yet focused on the accomplishments and experiences that matter most." -- Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author of 4000 Weeks and Meditations for Mortals

"In this book, Sarah offers something both rare and sorely needed in our current productivity literature: an approach to time management designed for real people with real lives." -- Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Deep Work and Slow Productivity

"The only plan you'll need to stop hating Mondays. Sarah Hart-Unger turns chaos into calm--without needing more hours in the day." -- Jodi Wellman, author of You Only Die Once

About the Author

Sarah Hart-Unger is a practicing pediatric endocrinologist, writer, and podcaster with a passion for planning. She loves to share her systems and techniques with others through courses and live planning retreats. She lives with her husband and three children in South Florida. She has been writing most days for over 20 years at theshubox.com.