Podcast Episodes

June Q&A: Planner Swapping, Partner/Friend Planning Dilemmas, Planning with Unpredictable Time Blocks, Planners for Tweens/Teens with ADHD, and More

Season 4 Episode 256

It's a Q&A podcast! Topics include:

- Ways to plan/manage tasks when your time is unpredictably chopped up (gig worker)?
- How to move into a new planner midyear?
- How to talk with a partner who feels…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Travel Planning: Strategic Planning + Anticipatory Fun at Every Time Horizon

Season 4 Episode 255

Today's episode centers around strategies for travel planning, from super-long range (5-10+ years) to daily planning while on vacation! Sarah shares her favorite strategies at each time horizon to cr…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Where Planning Meets Etiquette with Lizzie Post of the Emily Post Institute

Season 4 Episode 254

Lizzie Post is the great-great-grandaughter of famed etiquette expert Emily Post and serves as co-president at the Emily Post Institute along with her cousin Daniel Post Senning. In today's episode S…

Published on 5 months ago

10 Quirky Planning Habits that Might Work for You!

Season 4 Episode 253

In today's episode, Sarah welcomes listeners into summer (and southern hemisphere listeners into winter!). Then, she shares 10 less common (possibly quirky!) planning habits that work for her, from h…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Monthly Planning Rhythms + Completist Mini-Review

Season 4 Episode 252

Today's episode is dedicated to monthly planning rhythms! Sarah discusses why the monthly planning level can be a challenging one, but then provides reasons to try giving it some attention!

Elements …

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Mini-Review of Kendra Adachi's Playbooks + Planner Peace from A Completist Listener

Season 4 Episode 251

In today's episode, Sarah shares a detailed Planner Peace submission (from a listener who listened to all 250 episodes of the BLP back catalog!) and provides a mini-review of Kendra Adachi's The Play…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Out of the Weeds + Listener Q&A: Processing Paper, Ideas for Digital/Paper Hybrid Systems, Planner Peace from NZ, and Visualizing Summer

Season 4 Episode 250

In today's episode, Sarah share the strategies that got her feeling much less "in the weeds", including airtight task capture and inbox cleaning, plus monthly work planning!

Then, she shares a Planne…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

In the Weeds: Thoughts on Climbing Out from Overwhelm + Overload

Season 4 Episode 249

In today's episode, Sarah gets real: she shares her current feelings of being "in the weeds", how she got there, and the strategies she hopes to employ to climb out.

Additional Notes:
Best Laid Plans …

Published on 6 months ago

Planning Meals and the Rest of Life with Allison Schaaf, Business Owner and Mother of 4

Season 4 Episode 248

Allison Schaaf is the creator and owner of PrepDish (longtime BLP sponsor!) and her business is based on planning, specifically around meals! But she also has plenty of wisdom to share around plannin…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Routines (general thoughts + personal revamp!) + Planning Your Weekends

Season 4 Episode 247

In today's episode, Sarah reflects on routines, noting that her recent episode on morning routines is already obsolete (as it applies to her own morning routine, anyway!). She shares thoughts about b…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago