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Best Laid Plans

A Simple Planning System for Living a Life That You Love

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Best Laid Plans

By: Sarah Hart-Unger
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Every moment matters when you have big goals for your family, career, and the community you're committed to. 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.

©2026 Sarah Hart-Unger (P)2026 Tantor Media Parenting & Families Personal Development Personal Success Relationships Time Management Management
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As a full time mother of 2, I found this book this to be practical and applicable to my real life. The strategies outlined take into account the types of challenges that working parents need to navigate when trying to set goals, plan and stay organized. I feel like is a realistic way I can plan while trying to balance my full time job and elementary aged kids.

Real Life and Practical for this working mom

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I've listened to the podcast before and I'm a planner enthusiast and I believe she's provided some great tools, tips and tricks for both seasoned and newbie planners. And the audiobook is a quick and easy read.

Planning Made Simple

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Step-by-step advice from a busy medical professional (like myself). Certainly a far cry from the techs bros and productivity nerds who have oodles of time to plan their morning routine! Delivery is in the author’s fast, enthusiastic style she uses for podcasting. I needed to slow it down to 0.85 speed to imbibe the points, as there is so much to learn from Sarah’s experience. Bought the kindle version to be able to read at a slower pace on a plane journey! A truly welcome addition to the “getting things done for busy people” genre!

Simple straightforward “followable” advice!

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A complete disappointment. The book gives a bunch of really obvious advice that, it says, needs to be implemented with an unshakable will. But it never tells you the crucial thing— how to make your will less shakable. Probably *any* planner system would work if you have an unshakable will.

Very poor choice to have the author narrate her own work. She talks down to the reader/listener in a sing-song condescending voice, like a kindergarten teacher. (Or, at least like the kindergarten teacher who lived down the hall in my apartment building during grad school.) The voice exacerbates the inanity of the advice.

Inane advice in a sing-song voice

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