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Planning & Goal-Setting For 2021 (Is There Even A Point?): Voices 56

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For those who love to plan ahead, the past year has been a huge challenge–and the shiny promise of a brand new year feels a little lackluster as we look toward 2021. Is planning and goal-setting permanently on hold, shuttered just like schools and gyms and concerts? Sarah Hart-Unger says no.

Our first Voices interview episode of 2021 features two Sarahs: host Sarah Powers chats with guest Sarah Hart-Unger about how to approach planning and goal-setting this year. We talk about the importance of reflecting on 2020, even though it didn’t go as planned, how to “pandemic-proof” your goals for 2021, and why the annual exercise of looking back and looking forward is still valuable. Sarah also answers your listener questions on the nitty-gritty of planning and goal setting. Join us!

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Links we mentioned (or should have) in this episode:

  • Last year’s Voices 44 episode with Sarah Hart-Unger: Staying Organized & Motivated As A Full-Time Working Mom
  • Sarah Hart-Unger’s blog and website: theshubox.com
  • Listen to Best Laid Plans (SHU’s planning podcast) wherever you get your podcasts (all the show notes are on her site here)
    • Sarah Powers loved these episodes especially: Ep 6: Getting Started with Planning and Ep 17: Technique Spotlight: Monthly Review
  • SHU referenced the 2021 Goals episode of Best Of Both Worlds
  • Shortening Your Gaze, For Now (we referenced this essay of Meagan’s)
  • SHU’s recommendations for books and podcasts about planning and goal-setting:
    • Books by Cal Newport: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, Deep Work (Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World), and his podcast Deep Questions with Cal Newport
    • Atomic Habits by James Clear
    • 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam
    • Organize 365 Podcast
    • Michael Hyatt & Megan Hyatt Miller’s podcast Lead to Win
    • Anne Bogel’s What Should I Read Next? Podcast

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With nearly a year of “everything’s cancelled!” behind us, and facing down an early 2021 of “Who knows?”, we’ve all learned a couple things:⠀
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The solution: goal setting with a big dose of self-awareness and self-empathy. As 2020 taught us, things aren’t always going to look exactly the way we plan, but that doesn’t mean goal-setting is cancelled!⠀
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From our personal finances to family priorities; hobbies and household projects to travel (what?!) and extracurricular activities, Sarah and Meagan are here with a real-life conversation about goal-setting that will meet you where you are and help you plan what you can – while allowing a lot of flexibility for the things that may change along the way.⠀
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Sarah here, friends. It’s getting REALLY hard to find shows that all three kids enjoy—not too mature for the 7yo, and not too little-kid-ish for the tween. This brand new mystery series from Disney - geared toward ages 6-14 - hit the mark and then some. They LOVED it. There’s a little suspense (just enough), great characters, and plot twists galore. We can’t wait to keep watching to see what happens next—thanks for including us in the premiere, @disneychannelpr!

Secrets Of Sulphur Springs premiers Friday 1/15 on #DisneyChannel, in #DisneyNow, and on Disney Channel YouTube. Three out of three Powers kids recommend! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Art supplies taking over your shared space? Losing library books under piles of what-even-IS-this-stuff? Ready for a January re-set of your home's organization systems? You're not alone. This week Meagan and Sarah continue the conversation about where to put all the STUFF of family life, covering arts and crafts, board games and puzzles, super-sized play stuff, and all those wonderful books. We also touch on ways to know if an organizational system will work for you and your family - because, as we've found, one size does NOT fit all.⠀
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The holidays are behind us, but they've left their mark on our homes: mostly in the form of more STUFF to store. Meagan and Sarah have logged decades of toy sorting and stuff-storing and in this week's episode share our experience finding just the right spot for all that brightly colored plastic. We talk about LEGO, we talk about stuffies and dolls; we remember the days of itty bitty sets and giant toddler ride-on toys. By the end of this episode we hope you'll feel like you already have the space and sense required to store your kids' stuff - no fancy bins required.⠀
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Meagan and Sarah discovered that we both use the tactic of wrapping fragile decor items (not ornaments so much as knickknacks and dishes) in clean seasonal linens when we put them away until next year. Saves on bubble wrap or packing materials, and the linens need to be stored anyway.

When you unpack next year, just run the napkins and dish towels through a quick wash cycle and you’re ready to go!

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Our first Voices interview episode of 2021 features two Sarahs: host Sarah Powers (@powersofmine) chats with guest Sarah Hart-Unger (@the_shubox of @shubox_plans and @best_of_both_worlds_podcast) about how to approach planning and goal-setting this year. We talk about the importance of reflecting on 2020, even though it didn’t go as planned, how to “pandemic-proof” your goals for 2021, and why the annual exercise of looking back and looking forward is still valuable. Sarah also answers your listener questions on the nitty-gritty of planning and goal setting.⠀
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We're not an interview podcast as our primary form We're not an interview podcast as our primary format; never have been, and don't plan to be. So when we bring outside voices onto the show, we try to do it very mindfully - covering topics outside our personal spheres of experience, or that we believe this community will benefit from hearing more about. Sometimes a guest comes to us by popular request; sometimes a pitch catches our eye (about one in 1,000, to be honest); most often, we approach people whose message and work we admire and are genuinely excited to talk to.⠀
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This Friday you'll hear our first Voices episode of 2021, and we'd love to know what other topics you'd like to see represented in our interviews in the coming year. Comment below with a topic area, or tag a guest you think would be great (bonus points if you know for sure we haven't covered the topic recently 😎 ).
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"This Christmas, the stakes were both higher (afte "This Christmas, the stakes were both higher (after a year like 2020, we all really needed this holiday to be pleasant and peaceful) but also lower (after a year like 2020, "pleasant and peaceful" were all we really needed.)⠀
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I hope tonight, after you've picked up the hundredth tiny bit of wrapping paper, or finally got that toy working after wrestling with the battery pack for an hour, or stepped on an errant piece of Lego, that you can look back over your day and identify a few moments of comfort and coziness. ⠀
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Meagan is continuing her daily blog posts through Christmas Day, sharing a short tip, truth, or bit of perspective each day. Check out the full post at themomhour.com/holidayhelp, or via the link in our bio!⠀
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"I just got done filling stockings. They're curren "I just got done filling stockings. They're currently slumped against my bedroom wall, as full as they're going to get. Likewise, the stack of gifts below the tree downstairs isn't getting any bigger. The breakfast menu I've planned isn't getting any more ambitious, either. The stores are closed, the night is over, my work here is done.⠀
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