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Tidy Up Your Life: Organizing Inspiration for 2025 with Tyler Moore (aka Tidy Dad) EP 234 Jan 20, 2025

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If you have any kind of organizing or decluttering goals on your 2025 goals list, today's episode is for you. Sarah interviews Tyler Moore (known as Tidy Dad), a teacher and author with a passion for organizing and curating spaces to meet the needs of life as they ebb and flow through the seasons - and his current season is 3 young kids in a small NYC apartment!

This interview offers plenty of inspiration and great ideas from Tyler, including the idea of an annual decluttering calendar, thoughts on building household routines, and what to start with FIRST if you've struggle with decluttering in the past.

Tyler can be found at @tidydad on social media, thetidydad.com, and is the author of Tidy Up Your Life: Rethinking How to Organize, Declutter, and Make Space for What Matters Most, available wherever books are sold.

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January Energy + 3 Essential Systems EP 233 Jan 13, 2025

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In today's episode, Sarah checks in with a January energy report and provides some words of caution about this high-motivation time -- it's fun and you should enjoy it, but be prepared for it to be transient!

She shares her thoughts on 3 essential systems for life management: a comprehensive and accurate Master Calendar, Airtight Task Management, and her Nested Goals framework.

Resources/other episodes mentioned:

1) Seasonal Planning Example: https://theshubox.com/2024/03/blp-episode-189-diving-into-quintile-2.html

2) All About Nested Goals: https://theshubox.com/2024/01/episode-182-nested-goals-explained.html

3) Second Brain concept (credit to Tiago Forte): https://theshubox.com/2024/01/second-brain-ing-my-apple-notes.html

https://theshubox.com/2022/08/blp-episode-108-back-to-school-scrolling-habits-planner-matchups-apple-notes.html

Send in your questions, Planner Peace submissions, and favorite shop recs - comment on theshubox.com, text to 305-697-7189, or email sarah.hart.unger at gmail!

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Planning and Goal-Setting for Health with Carolyn Cohen EP 232 Jan 06, 2025

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Carolyn Cohen is a health coach passionate about helping others reach their wellness goals, and she chats with Sarah today about how planning and goal-setting intersect with health and wellness. She discusses the pros and cons of having a separate wellness planner, effective habit tracking, the benefits of data from wearables, and more. She also introduced the idea of a health planning retreat!

Find more from Carolyn at wellnesswhilewalking.com, or check out the Wellness While Walking podcast in your favorite player!

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Sharing 2025 Goals! EP 231 Dec 30, 2024

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In today's episode, Sarah shares her goals for 2025 in 4 domains: personal, work, relationships, and household! If you love listening to others share their plans and dreams for the year, this episode is for you :) Topics include fitness and health goals, goals related to kids, work goals, organizing aspirations, and more.

Thank you for listening this year, and wishing you a wonderful start to 2025!

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Setting Up My 2025 Planner Sidekick + December Q&A EP 230 Dec 23, 2024

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In today's episode, Sarah goes through her setup of her 2025 Goals/Lists planner, a Hobonichi Weeks she will use for tracking and various collections. Then, she answers additional questions sent in the past month.

Topics discussed:

- Request for planner shop recs around the world + recommendation of Good Postage in Charlotte, NC

- Ways to track continuing education data + resources - Sarah recommends going digital for this using a tool like Apple Notes, OneNote, or Notion

- Listener tip: a Taylor Swift-inspired planner!? Meet the Mastermind!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1798413186/the-weekly-mastermind-planner-2025

- Another listener's take on Quintiles - the Sextile system! (6 seasons of the year!)

- Planner matchmaking request for a small dated daily planner. Ideas included the Hobonichi A6, Take A Note, Sterling Ink 2025 Daily, Midori Hibino (small but CHUNKY), Leuchtturm Daily in Pocket A6, or dating a Stalogy 365 notebook

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Mindful Social Media Use and More with Shunta Grant EP 229 Dec 16, 2024

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Shunta Grant is the creator of the Best Today Guide and associated communities, and is passionate about helping people find the best version of "today" that they can, and the intentional stewardship of time. She is also vocal and honest about her journey with social media, which is what especially Sarah to her work! In this conversation, Sarah chats with Shunta about what cultivating your "Best Today" means, overcoming challenges, as well as Shunta's social media experiments, challenges, and current practices.

Find Shunta at: https://besttoday.co

Additional Notes:

Planning By Season: almost full! Visit theshubox.com/courses for details; this is a year-long experience that opens for registration just once yearly for continuity in your seasonal planning all year long.

Newsletter:

Subscribe for monthly notes and highlights in your inbox (and never more than every month)! Visit theshubox.com/newsletter

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Revealed: 2025 Planner Stack! EP 228 Dec 09, 2024

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In today's episode, Sarah shares her Planner Stack (all of her physical planning tools) for 2025! She's going more streamlined this year with a couple of changes and many old favorites.

She would love to hear about the tools you have decided on for 2025! Share via theshubox.com or email sarah.hart.unger@gmail.com.

She also discusses a bit more about Planning By Season 2025, which just opened for registration! Learn more about this year-long experience at theshubox.com/courses

TOOLS MENTIONED

* BLP Live/Home Workbook

* BLP Planning By Season Workbook (trying printing at doxzoo)

* Hobonichi HON A5 English, Paysanne Blossom Liberty Cover

* Hobonchi Weeks Mega, Lemon Water

* Hobonichi 5-Year (2021-2025)

* Ashley Shelly Monthly (Amanda's Favorites version)

* Essential Calendar (affiliate link gets you 10% off: https://www.theessentialcalendar.com/BESTLAIDPLANS or use code BESTLAIDPLANS at checkout)

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Planning Your Spending with Jen Smith EP 227 Dec 02, 2024

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In today's episode, Sarah kicks off an "organizing special topics" series with Jen Smith, cohost of the Frugal Friends podcast and author of Buy What You Love Without Going Broke, out this January. Sarah and Jen chat intentionality around spending, saving, and how to tackle both short- and long-term financial goals. Get inspired to think about budgeting in a different way by focusing on spending on what matters, not deprivation.

Sarah is releasing Planning By Season! Find out more at theshubox.com/courses (or check out details in the December newsletter - visit theshubox.com/newsletter to subscribe!)

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Your Mini-Guide to 2025 Annual Planning EP 226 Nov 25, 2024

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In this episode, Sarah shares her annual planning framework, essentially a mini-version of her BLP at Home course! Components include reflection, visioning, goal setting, specialty planning, and more.

She has added one weekend option for BLP at Home: Planning 2025! If you'd like to join, visit theshubox.com/courses for more info.

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PrepDish: Visit PrepDish.com/plans for your first 2 weeks, FREE.

MasterClass: Give the gift of learning this season! Visit masterclass.com/bestlaidplans to learn more and find active discounts!

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10 Reasons to Take a Break from Social Media EP 225 Nov 18, 2024

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In the past couple of weeks, there has been more discussion of becoming more intentional about your social media habits. If you'd like more encouragement to see what life is like without "the scroll", this episode has lots of it.

Sarah shares her own story of quitting various forms of social media and then offers 10 compelling reasons to give yourself a break from the scroll.

The scroll is endless; your life is not.

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MasterClass: Give the gift of learning this season! Visit masterclass.com/bestlaidplans to learn more and find active discounts!

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