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Part systems expert, part permission giver, Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius, is here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.
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December loves last minute lists, and they never seem to end. I’ve got some ideas for you to finish your last minute list without losing your mind.
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Finding balance is actually a major drain on our energy and calm and contentment. What we really want is to feel grounded, whether that’s in a busy month like December or honestly just any time at all.
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I keep thinking I’ll get tired of this practice since I do it every quarter, but as time goes on, I love it even more. The regular rhythm of noticing your life and naming what’s saving it, what’s making it light or grounded or joyful or even tolerable in certain seasons, is immensely helpful in being an integrated, content person. Let’s name where we are and what’s helping us be there right now.
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Episode #383: What’s Saving My Life Hall of Fame
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RMS makeup
The Playbooks
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We are a mere six weeks away from 2025 which is a Jetsons number, y’all. What does 2025 even mean?! It’s the busiest time of the year for a lot of you, and this is the time where we feel the crunch. Let’s do a little preemptive work today on making the rest of the year easier. Not completely easy! Not seamless! Not a machine! We’re making it just a little bit easier.
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Alright, let’s huddle up. It’s the middle of November. Now that Halloween is over and we’re into the November swing, the avalanche of holiday stuff falls fast. The other thing that can sometimes happen this time of year is you start seeing ads for new planners. Most of us want a new one before the year is over so that we can start the new year fresh and ready to go, so planner-ordering energy is starting to wake up.
I want you to remember that your planner is not magic. It is simply a tool to help you organize certain aspects of your life. The problem is that we often expect more from it than it has the capacity to give, so today, let’s talk about the 7 things you shouldn’t expect your planner to do.
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My guess is you come across these fairly often but most certainly this time of year. Making decisions with a big group usually starts with someone in that group asking “what are we going to do about [fill in the blank]?” And the decision fatigue and task paralysis begin. So whether that’s you and your in-laws with the Thanksgiving split, you and friends with your annual holiday party, or you and your immediate family with gift giving, I think this episode will be helpful.
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Some episodes from the archive you might find helpful this week: #258 - The Seven Kinds of Rest and How to Know Which One You Need, #235 - When You Disagree on What Matters, #182 - Loving People You Disagree With
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It’s that time again where I answer your questions on the podcast, helping you Lazy Genius life’s regular ol’ problems. Even though a lot of these questions have kids in their description, they’re all pretty universal no matter your living situation. Let’s jump in!
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How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis
Breezy Instrumental playlist
Jamie B. Golden’s skincare routines for every energy level
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The PLAN, my book on compassionate time management has been in the world for two weeks now, and I really hope you all have been enjoying it.
Books stick with us when there are catchy things, right? Frameworks, acronyms, illustrations, and analogies. The PLAN has all of those, but I wanted to spend a little time talking today about one of those analogies, and it, to me, is one of the most freeing pieces of time management advice you’ll ever hear.
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Even the best compassionate time management practices won’t make chaos go away. In fact, compassionate time management just helps us feel more calm in the chaotic storms that life will always throw at us. We can’t always control the chaos. So when it hits, it’s nice to have some things you go to automatically that help you stay grounded, whole, and very much yourself when life feels chaotic. Today, I’m sharing 7 things I do when life feels chaotic.
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Compassionate time management is needed, and I believe that I am uniquely qualified to teach, share, and encourage it. I’m a recovering perfectionist, I’m good at systems, I’m a student of personal growth, I’m a therapy patient, and I’m a teacher. All of those things together have made me see the world through this very specific lens of compassion, and tomorrow is the day that the book I wrote to teach compassionate time management releases into the world.
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Invitation by Mary Oliver
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An odd stretch of time is when something significant changes the vibe of your daily life over a handful of days. Whether it’s a sickness, an injury, a guest, a project, it impacts your routines. It upends previously settled calendar logistics. It’s not always bad or even unwanted. It’s just odd. Let’s talk about navigating it well.
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I’ve been doing a lot of interviews recently, and a lot of the questions are understandably connected to the things we could or should be doing to have a better day. What are the routines, the tasks, the hacks that can get us to a place where we feel like we’re not underwater all the time? Well, the most accurate answer is that those aren’t the questions we should be asking. We really need a huge paradigm shift, and today, I want to focus on aspects of time management we’ve been getting wrong.
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As a thank you for pre-ordering the book, I’m sending out pep talks every Monday through the end of the year. Get yours here.
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We do What’s Saving My Life episodes regularly, just about every quarter, and I find the practice helpful, light, enjoyable, and necessary to keep me rooted in my season. But today is a little different because it is a Hall of Fame episode.
Remember, this is my personal list. This is not supposed to be replicated. Hear why these things are on my list to help you make yours, but by no means should our lists be the same.
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Episode #145: How to Hire a Housecleaner
Merlin Bird ID app
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Everyone has calendars to logistic (I know that’s not right, but I like it), and for certain people, seasons, families, those logistics feel like they’re going to eat you alive. Right now, my Google calendar has so many blocks in it, some of which overlap and I haven’t quite figured out how to reconcile those overlaps yet. It’s a whole thing, and maybe your calendar looks or at least feels like that.
So let’s talk about how to do this like a Lazy Genius. How can you manage calendar logistics in a reasonably efficient, intentionally kind way?
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The Holiday Docket
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We’re into compassionate time management around here, but it’s not just pep talks and high fives. We’re practical and kind, but we’re also educated. We are trying to understand why we struggle with time management, why we own so many planners, why we never feel like we’re doing enough, and even if we finally have let that go, we still struggle against the tide of everyone else making us feel bad for our beliefs.
Basically, the problem is not you, and today I’m going to show you why by reading you the first chapter in my new book, out October 8, called The PLAN.
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When you feel overwhelmed without knowing what to do, the overwhelming feeling stays big and might get bigger which then feels like a problem. So here you are, overwhelmed, unsure of what to do about it; the feeling gets bigger, the problem, even though it’s unnamed, also gets bigger, and so you start throwing big solutions at an unnamed problem that don’t work, which then causes you to feel even more overwhelmed.
Instead, today I want to share with you seven ways to meet overwhelm.
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Episode 258: The Seven Kinds of Rest and How to Know Which One You Need
Episode 310: How to Pivot Around Any Obstacle
Episode 259: 5 Steps to Lazy Genius Anything
Episode 80: The Lazy Genius Daily Act of Kindness
Episode 306: What We Need to Have More Fun
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Today, I’m sharing a loose five-step framework for cleaning a room. If you do not have kids, this episode is not geared as much toward you.
However, everyone has the capacity to want a clean room, so if you wish your room was cleaner and you struggle to keep it that way, this episode might actually help.
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This week marks the four-year anniversary of my first book, The Lazy Genius Way, and we’re going to celebrate by dedicating an entire episode to the 13 Lazy Genius principles. These are lifelong, long haul principles that will make your life more grounded, content, and help you continue to name and focus on what matters most to you in whatever season you’re in. Plus, they help you get your stuff done. What a world that something can actually help you live your life and without an ounce of shame or shoulds.
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Episode 366: Twenty Helpful Decisions I Keep Repeating
Episode 349: 10 Small Changes I’m Glad I Made
Episode 262: Answers to the Magic Question That Paid Off
Episode 317: 5 Steps to a Routine That Actually Works
Episode 359: 7 Routines That Work for Me
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
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I do these episodes about once every season where I take your questions and problems and Lazy Genius them here in an episode. It’s a great way to have particular problems solved but more importantly to see how to think about solving problems, no matter what they are.
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Episode 61: The Lazy Genius Exercise Routine
Brené Brown and Tim Ferriss conversation
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August is almost here, and when it hits, it hits hard, especially if you have kids going back to school. So today, I’m going to do some of the work for you. I’ve gathered some of the biggest tasks you likely have to prepare for going back to school, and by listing them all together and sharing some ways to Lazy Genius them.
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Episode #326: How to Magic Question Your Morning
Get the checklist here!
Planetbox Lunchboxes
Episode #272: The Complete Guide to Seasonal Ceremonies
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how can i have that packing list for travel? where did you upload it?
Very useful podcast! Kedra, you are truly a genius! I haven't come across such an interesting podcast for a long time, except for the article on how to be chill at school: https://educhill.com/education/how-to-be-chill-in-school/. Now I really don't worry about studying.
actually, it's the first time I've heard about maycember & its chaotic time well, different cultures ig cuz these thing u're mentioning as a problem that we need an episode about it & need to be talked about, is nothing serious to me
For Angela's question, I want to share that I recently hung two single clothes hooks inside my walk-in closet where I hang my clothes in transition (i.e.wearing again soon, tomorrow's outfit, etc.) They are off of the floor, not draped over furniture, and hidden from view.
Thank you Dear Kendra I'm so happy that I've started my day day with your tips 🤍🌱
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what is wrong with you not like big bang theory! I graduated from Purdue. university that provided the most astronauts.
I just had to chime in here and share my thoughts on "The Lazy Genius Podcast." I've been an avid listener for quite some time now, and I must say, it's an absolute gem in the sea of podcasts out there. https://hubpages.com/@deli-paper Kendra's approach to embracing both laziness and genius in our lives is refreshingly unique. It's like she's giving us permission to take a step back, simplify things, and still achieve greatness. Her tips on efficient routines, clever life hacks, and the art of making seemingly complex tasks more manageable have been a game-changer for me. https://www.behance.net/deli-paper-pros
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hi. i recently cheked out some of the transcripts and i realized that they are imperfect and incomplete, i mean you left many sentences untranscribed. please fix this, some ppl do need fully trascribed episodes to be able to follow up and get everything.
an american podcast with transcript for each episode!!! that's freaking awesome. I've been literally looking for sth like this for 2 years. i can't thank you enough♥️
I love to have a zero inbox and so one of my things is delete what needs to be deleted, or respond to the things that can be responded and then delete that or I move it to a "to-do" folder which are messages that need to be handled or have been put on the other person to respond but do not need to be in my inbox any longer. I then review that folder a couple times a week for what needs attention or be deleted if it's been done.
THIS was the piece I needed, after (mind blown) reading The Lazy Genius Way. Thank you. Is there anywhere you post the full process of Lazy Genius-ing people's problems, to help us layfolks out here get a better idea of the scope and how the principles are applied?
New listener, 6 years late! At 14:58, you said Nick Flora was the first person you’re interviewing for the podcast - I’m just curious if this was recorded before the first episode that you had your best friend on? Or is it a matter of format, or that she was a close friend and Nick isn’t? (I can’t help noticing the discrepancy.)
So happy about hearing Hannah!! Yay!!!