Best Laid Plans at Home: Planning 2026
This course now comes with BOTH a comprehensive 2026 planning component (4 total hours split into 2 session) and a 1 hour midyear check-in held in June 2026.
Every year, topics and organization of this course is adjusted based on feedback — I believe this year will be the best yet! The first 2 hour session includes reflections and step by step creation of your 2026 goals for the year, while the second session is all about systems and life management, from optimizing your weekly and monthly routines to auditing various aspects or life, from your device use to your finances and beyond.
There will be THREE SHOWINGS held once again, so hopefully one of them will work for you to attend live! Dates are in the registration link. Feel free to share with a partner or friend – as long as you are viewing together, I’m totally fine with a joint purchase!
There is a beautifully-designed 64 page workbook (available as PDF) to go along with this course. Many participants have used them to refer to throughout the year!
To register, visit the course site here.
Planning By Season: 2026 Edition
This course is now full for 2026 – stay tuned for future offerings!
Planning By Season is a year-long course featuring seasonal planning sessions to help turn your big goals into reality with practical and intentional goal-setting and planning at the seasonal level. This is a smaller group, so it really gets to feel like an intimate cohesive space for planning together! All sessions will be offered live via Zoom, with option to watch asynchronously (in addition to or in place of the live session!).
This course includes 10 sessions held throughout 2026, plus access to a course-specific chat thread to ask questions and share in your journey throughout the year, if desired.
5 hour long sessions held near the start of each season (see months below!). Each session will be held on a Monday or Wednesday at 12 pm Eastern; all sessions will be recorded so participants can view asynchronously if desired.
5 special topics / progress check-ins — special topic discussions, opportunities for Q&A, sharing wins, progress, etc — one per season, generally these will be held in between the main seasonal sessions in the afternoons (Monday or Wednesday)
There is a NEWLY DESIGNED PDF workbook that contains space for annual goals + lists (awesome to have them there to refer to throughout the year!), and then sections for each season — each with a different color scheme, dot-grid layouts, and including some season-specific material. I had mine spiral bound in A5 size last year and can’t wait to use it again in 2026!
If you are interested I highly recommend signing up soon (2026 course is already 2/3 full). Link to register is here! As noted above, if you’re also purchasing Home use the bundled deal link (here) to get the best price. If you’ve already registered for Planning 2026 Home OR Live and want to add Planning By Season, please email me and I can send you a link that provides the same discount as the bundle.
Best Laid Plans Academy – Working on V2.0, out Spring 2026 and more to come!
Details About the Course:
| Best Laid Plans Academy is a 7-week course with live (or asynchronous – you get to pick!) learning sessions, pdf text/workbooks, and supplemental support sessions for specialty groups that I developed after listeners were asking for a step by step guide to creating a functional planning system from the ground up — or fixing one that wasn’t serving them. The material has plenty of suggestions but is never prescriptive – participants figure out what works best for them, and support each other! There is time for reflection and I am available for questions both during + between the sessions! Some additional details of what will be offered in this round:Best Laid Plans Academy Fall 2024 Includes: *︎ 7 live 60 minute sessions (also recorded for convenience) held on Thursdays between September and early November. Topics range from daily/weekly/seasonal/big picture planning to nested goal setting methods to calendar and email management and more! * 3 Specialty Sessions – one for parents of young kids, one for those with more flexible careers, and one for less flexible careers (think healthcare!). Invitation to future specialty sessions is evergreen – you can join these for as long BLPA is offered! * All live sessions recorded and made available through course platform after each session︎ Materials (PDFs, short videos) available immediately so you can choose to read/work ahead if desired! * Comprehensive PDF textbook and workbook pages for each section with new revised editions; well-designed and printable in B&W or color with plenty of space for journaling and brainstorming in the workbook section * Short (15 minute) summary lesson videos for each session – can be viewed in addition to the longer zoom sessions or as a substitute if you fall behind and need to catch up quickly! * Private WhatsApp chat just for members to share – ask questions + receive support from me + your fellow course attendees! |
Quotes from Previous BLPA Participants
(these were taken with permission from post-course surveys sent after rounds 1-3)
“I cannot say enough good things about my experience with Best Laid Plans Academy. Historically, I have been unable to enact a durable planning system into my life. I wanted to, but I also struggled with a lot of planning resistance. But apparently this student was finally ready because boy did the teacher appear. Sarah’s course is EXTREMELY well thought-out, clear, and detailed without being overly prescriptive. I loved the live sessions but having both a workbook, written notes, AND recorded sessions for review later made this course extremely accessible and adaptable.”
“BLPA was such a fun, engaging course! It provided a strong foundational planning routine and encouraged participants to customize a system to meet their needs. Sarah did an excellent job leading the sessions!”
“The Specialty Sessions were fantastic! I appreciated the smaller group discussion and learning from a variety of perspectives in a safe space.”
“I found BLPA very valuable in that it provided me the space and opportunity to think through aspects of planning from the daily to the annual level. I really liked the workbook and textbook as a future resource, as well as watching the shorter videos in preparation for the zoom sessions. I couldn’t attend all zoom sessions live because of work, but I did watch those I missed after the fact.”
Please note: I do have limited space as I want to make sure I am available to every member for questions and because I want to keep discussions at a manageable size during the session.