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So each playbook starts with a page titled how to Use this Playbook where it explains some nuts and bolts of of how to use it. And then it's followed by a page with some playbook house rules so you can use in a way that honors you and honors your life right now. There's not a lot of like, gripping optimization energy in this thing. And those house rules are a bit of a reminder of how to approach it. So then you'll come to a set of pages that help you notice where you are at the start of this new season that you're in. There are some questions you can answer if you think the answers would help you. You can skip em if you want. But questions like, you know, what have you just finished? What's making you feel like yourself then as you prepare for this upcoming season. So, for example, right now it might be the summer playbook, right? We're going into summer now. So you'll be given an opportunity to answer questions about what you remember from last summer. Like what worked, what's changed since last year. You know, there might be changes that are important to note so that you can make decisions that work for your life right now. It might not be the same as last year. Then you'll answer some questions about this upcoming season or, you know, this upcoming summer, if you're doing it right now so that you can actually write down what matters to you in the season. There's even space to include your seasonal opening and closing ceremonies you want to do if you want to have those, as well as a place to put a decide once list for the season. So things that you're deciding now and you're just gonna ride until the season's over. So for the summer, it might be like we eat dinner at the pool three nights a week, like whatever. You know, it's like a $50 hot dog. Let's go. So you can just decide once and write it down so you know that that's a decision that you are going to make. Okay? So that's how you open your seasonal playbook. You answer some questions about where you as a person are right now. You think about what your season was like last year, and then you think about what you might want your season to be like this year, much more accessible than like, what do you want for your life in five years? Again, girl, I do not know. All right, so then each playbook is three months, right? Depending on the season you're using. This months are different. Summer is June, July and August. So you will set up, you will get like a set of pages for each of those months, right? And so they're the same. So the set of pages for June is the same as July, same as August. They're just Labeled June, July, and August. So let's say for June, you get to June. That's our first month. You get a brain dump page so that you can just get all the things out that you wanna remember to do this month or that are kind of hanging over your head, then there is space for you to actually organize those things into have to's and hope to's, which is a to do list approach that I share in my book the plan. And because lazy geniuses, we don't just prepare, we also adjust. We also notice that's a big part of planning. There are pages that help you do those things too. Recognizing what you might need adjustment for. Then. My favorite part of each playbook that I use the most is the week pages within each month. So each month has a full page for the four weeks of the month, right? So labeled week one, week two, week three, and week four, I use these the most. They're like a holding pin for your tasks. So if you do a brain dump and then you're like, oh, I don't even have to worry about this one thing. I just wrote down until the end of the month. You can put that task on week three or week four so that you don't even have to process it or think about it until then. The week pages are the ones that I reference the most often because that's where I pull my daily and weekly to do lists from. I have done the work already of what needs to happen this week in my playbook from my brain dump from the beginning of the month. You know, I look through my calendar, I look through what didn't get done last month, I look through what's going on, and then I sort of have done the work ahead of time of this is what's gonna happen on this week. And it just feels so much more calming, even if it's just partly what I'm gonna be doing. And then finally, before you move on to the next month in your playbook, there's a quick spot to name how you're doing, how you're feeling like yourself, and maybe where you're being a little too hard on yourself this past month. That's important to name as you move into a new month, right? Then once you get through the three months in your playbook, there's one page at the end that leaves space for you to write down how that season went. Like it says, how did your summer go? Like, how did it go? How'd your season go? You can write something down, like a quick little journal entry. If you like, you can also leave it blank. That's fine. There are also a handful of blank dot grid pages. They're not fully blank, but they're dot grid at the end, where you can keep info that you need for the season, or you can actually, like, show how the summer went and you can tape in photos. Some of you have those little sticker printers, those little photo sticker printers you can put in ticket stubs. You know, you can put in the things that you want to remember from this season. Then you grab the next season's playbook and you do it all again. So that's what's practically inside the Playbooks. It has what matters most about the season and even the practical things you're going to do at what times, just ready for you. And they can go with whatever planning tool you use. Okay, so the next thing clearly is like, well, what do these things actually look like, y' all? I cannot explain how cute and cool these little notebooks are. They're 6 by 8 soft cover notebooks. They have less than 50 pages each, so they are compact, but they are still big enough to, like, use. You don't feel like you're writing in, like, a tiny little notebook, you know? And they also have enough umph to them and focus in the questions and how it's laid out that, like, you could use these things. These are a workhorse. These are going to be so good to you. I already mentioned that the Playbooks are sold as seasons. Spring, summer, fall, and winter. And each season has a different cover color. So fall is like a deep navy blue. Winter is this light icy blue. Spring is a vibrant, like butter yellow. And summer, the season we're about to start, is this glorious red. It's like, it's the shade of like a weathered beach umbrella. It's just such a good red. Anyway, so inside of the playbook, they're rounded corners, so they don't. Yeah, so they don't like bend and curl in the same way. Like, they're really, really high quality. And the pages are a great thickness. It's white paper dot grid pages. Very minimalist, but bold typography designs. There aren't really any illustrations or even color. There's no color on the inside. They are super simple. If you like. If you like the essential calendar calendars with their black and white minimalist approach, you're going to absolutely love the Playbooks. I intentionally wanted these to be simple in their aesthetics because one, that's what I personally love. And I want to be the most Eager user of these notebooks. And I am. And two, I wanted there to be space for anyone's style to find a home. So you can make it look cuter with stickers or different colored pens or whatever you'd like to do. But ultimately, it is a design that's simple enough to make everyone feel welcome. Okay, so what does the playbook look like? It's casual and cool. That's the answer to that. Now, another question that we get a lot is how they are broken down into their seasons. Okay, so spring is March, April, May, Summer is June, July, August, Fall is September, October, November, and winter is December, January, February. Now, a couple notes about this. This choice. If y' all knew. Listen, if y' all knew how painstakingly our team went through all. All the possible month breakdowns. Holy moly. We spent a ton of time choosing what we thought was the best set of groupings. So while nothing is ideal for every single person, we do think this is the best approach for the majority. Just know that this. So much thought went into this. And if you're like, oh, but you didn't think about this. Yes, we did. I promise you we did. And we just had to make the call that we thought would be the best for everybody. So we intentionally wanted to keep November and December separate and separate playbooks to help create some breathing room from, like, American Thanksgiving and then all the winter holidays. That is on purpose. We also felt like May should be the end of spring. Even though some of you aren't tied to school calendars or those that are aren't necessarily ending school in June, we still felt like May needed to not be part of summer. All that to say we spend a lot of time trying to find the best groupings, and I hope they don't throw you off too much. One thing that will definitely throw a person off is if you live in the Southern hemisphere. For you, a playbook with summer on the COVID does not have the months June, July, and August like it's the opposite. We recognize the incongruency there. We are keeping it on our metaphorical whiteboard to print Southern Hemisphere versions. It's just that the demand for those are not high enough yet to be able to sustain the necessary inventory without us losing money. So until that shifts, the seasons match the Northern hemisphere seasons. Okay, three more questions. How is this different from a planner? Great question. There are no calendar pages in the playbooks. You could print some out. Some people do that on, like, adhesive paper and stick it on some of those blank pages because they actually want to have a calendar part in there, and I love that. But there are no calendar pages in the playbooks. The playbooks are not dated, right? So the summer playbook that you use this summer, it will look exactly like the summer playbook that you get for next summer. We intentionally didn't want to date them. We also kind of love that you're going to have this, like, little collection of seasonal playbooks that you can look back on almost as, like, what went on last summer. Like you. When you're answering your questions about last summer, there will come a time where you can pull out your summer playbook from last summer. I love that so much. Okay, now, so we intentionally did not date them. But there are also a ton of planners that already work well for your life. You know, like, depending on what you need to keep track of, a planner with a daily layout is helpful. Or maybe you just need a monthly calendar with some to do lists and that's all. Maybe you do enjoy filling in the water droplets to mark how much you're drinking. Or you do need to keep track of your goals. All of those things are great. But the playbook is different in that it helps you look at just your season and not necessarily your day or your week. It's more macro, just for the season, less micro, which is a lot of what we need. Full disclosure, at this point, I don't even have a planner with a calendar at all. Like, I've, I've gotten rid of it at this point. I have my playbook, which I live and I reference every day. Like I said, I have a blank notebook where I just write like podcast episode notes and sometimes to do lists on a busier week when I need to like, really triage. Like, this is what I'm doing Monday, this is what I'm gonna do Tuesday. I don't always have to do that, but on busier weeks, I'll just use my blank notebook for that or even like stickies, like post it notes that I might stick in my playbook. And then I have my, my, my Google Calendar. That's where the stuff is. That's it. So the playbook hasn't really replaced my planner, I suppose, but what it's done is it's made a more detailed planner unnecessary. So you can explore how it works in your life. You know, you can, you can use one for one season and you can decide how you want it to work alongside whatever kind of micro planning tool that you need. Another question I often get asked is, how is a playbook different from Emily P. Freeman's Next Right Thing Guided Journal. This is also an excellent question. So the Next Right Thing Guided Journal is about decisions you need to make and how reflection into the past can help you do that. So it's more about decision making and reflection. The playbooks are more about task management and the future. So the Next Right Thing Guided Journal, it helps you look back and notice the things that are weighing on your mind. And the playbooks help you look ahead and notice the things that are weighing on your schedule. That's a tiny bit simplistic, but it's also, like, pretty accurate. You can absolutely use both. And in fact, like much of what Emily and I do, they go really well together. They go really well together. And then the final question that I get asked a lot is, how is the Summer Playbook different from the summer docket? Or even how is the Winter Playbook different from the holiday docket? Okay, we've been selling dockets forever, so some of you already own either one of those, either the summer or holiday docket. They are downloadable PDFs that you have lifetime access to. You just print them off anytime, any season. They are sold in our digital shop and they are great in conjunction with the playbooks. Now, if you are already using the summer docket to plan your activities, you might ask, why would I also need the Summer Playbook? This is a great question and it shows me that as a community you are super thoughtful, not just about how you spend your financial resources, but also your time. You don't want to like double up and waste your time planning something twice. Right? The dockets. Here's the difference. The dockets are activity planners for the two seasons of the year that have seasonal specific things that might be passed over otherwise. And the playbooks are for regular life that happens no matter what. So for example, in the summer docket, you will print out the list of typical summer activities and you'll like highlight the ones that matter to you. You'll cross out the ones that don't. This season, you know, there are things like July 4th fireworks and playing in the SP sprinkler and going berry picking and all kinds of stuff. So those are the things that typically only happen in the summer. And you want to elevate those seasonal specific activities so that you remember to actually do them so you don't get caught up in just the regular season of life. The playbooks might include some of those things. You know, for example, on the page where you write what matters this summer, you might write, have A lot of fun doing summer activities. And then you list out the ones that matter the most, the ones that you discovered by going through the summer docket, that the Playbooks also help you pay attention to your own energy and to your calendar and to the tasks that aren't necessarily summer specific. So that's the difference in the dockets and the Playbook. Okay, and one final thought. This is not really a question I get asked a lot, but it's a sense that I get. So I think that there can be nerves around new planning tools. We want to do things right. We want to make the most of things. We got to let that go, you guys. We got to let that go. There's no making the most of. There's no right or wrong in this. It's just. It's just a notebook. Right. But there's also wanting to use something in a way that makes it worth buying it. And I get that. So sometimes there are nerves around, like, how often do I look at it? What am I actually looking for when I open it up? Like, how do I use this? I know you say it's versatile, but that means there's, like, multiple ways to use it. What if there are things that I'm missing? Right. Okay, so two thoughts here. One is that how you use it. It really is totally up to you. I already mentioned Emily P. Freeman. She does not even use. She uses the Playbooks, and of course, she uses the Next Right Thing Guided Journal because she wrote it. But she does not even use the weekly pages in the Playbooks. And those are my favorite and most essential pages. Like, you don't have to use every page. You don't have to use every playbook in the same way. As you move from season to season, different seasons are going to require different things. You really do get to enjoy it based on what you need. You don't have to fill out every single part in order for it to still count. Okay, so it genuinely is totally up to you. And the second thing to remember is that when you get your Playbook, there is a QR code on the inside that takes you to a resource page, complete with videos from me and ideas that you can utilize. Plus, you get to join a private Facebook group called the Playbook People, where folks are literally sharing all their ideas and how they're using their Playbook in different ways. And it's honestly brilliant. Brilliant. There's never a shortage of ideas of how you might use your Playbook, but that pressure that you feel to get the most out of your Playbook and to do it exactly right. That is from the old self help paradigm. We don't follow that anymore. You don't have to optimize this thing at every turn. You can miss an idea. You can forget pages and be okay. You can check it every day for three weeks and then not again for a whole month. That's not even necessarily because you forgot or because you're not disciplined or whatever you tell yourself. Maybe it's because the month that you missed didn't require any task, triage or remembrance of what matters. Maybe you were just living in what matters already. No matter what, you can just give it a try. You know, remember that different seasons require different things, which is a gift. That's a gift to know. And you can be kind as you practice this new way of planning. And that is my favorite planning tool ever. So if you would like to get your own summer playbook, since that's the season we are about to go into, you can go to thelazygeniuscollective.com playbooks. You can buy an individual season playbook for $12. So all the, you know, spring, summer, fall and winter are all $12 each. Or you can buy the bundle, it includes all four seasons. They're wrapped so cute with this like cute band. Oh my gosh, I love them. So you can Four Seasons for $40 total. So that's a $2 savings on each book. Eight bucks overall, 10 bucks a book. I never thought that I would talk about tariffs on my podcast, but here we are. So in case you're wondering, these prices that we have, they are going to stay steady for the foreseeable future. Since we printed on purpose a huge batch, we like rushed to get a huge batch of these printed before a lot of the tariffs impacting paper companies took hold. So our prices will remain until this huge batch of inventory sells out. And the folks at Otter Pine that we work with are already working hard to find printing solutions that will keep us stable, keep these prices stable in the future. We're doing our best. And because Otter Pine is so rock solid in their fulfillment processes too, because they do all our shipping for us, we can ship playbooks to all 50 states, to all US territories, to Canada, to Germany, to Ireland, to the UK and to Australia and New Zealand. Now, the only bummer about those last two is that they are Southern hemisphere countries. So the name of the season on the COVID will not technically match the months inside. That being said, a lot of you have gotten creative with, with how you like deal with that how you you might recover the COVID or you just deal with it, you know. But those are the places we ship. Again, you can find all the details@thelazygeniuscollective.com playbooks because the summer Playbook starts in June and it is May, it's early May, we're wanting to tell you about this so that you can go ahead and order it so it can arrive to you before June begins. You have time to just like look at it and answer some of those pre season questions before you get into the summer. Okay, before we go, let's celebrate the Lazy Genius of the Week. This week it's Kelly Dugan. Kelly writes, I love buying and planting flowers, but I have a hard time picking out the flowers for my various pots. In the past, I've overbought and crammed my pots too full. I've bought the wrong amount of sun versus shade plants. But each year I get a little bit more organized and happy with my selections. This year may be the best hack yet. I took pictures of my pots as soon as I planted them and then I used the photo editor editor to add the names of the plants next to each one. I quickly added them to an album to easily find them next year. Since I know that I have found what I like. And after I got home to realize, duh, we needed several bags of potting soil and I had to run back out, I added that as a reminder for next year too. This is a great idea, Kelly. When we do things around the same time of year, it's such a great hack to literally like add a calendar item to your digital calendar with a photo or just like a written list of things to do because it really is so easy to forget those things you think you're not going to, and then it's a year later and you're like, dang it, what plants did I buy? So this is a great reminder as we move into a season where a lot of you start planting flowers and stuff. 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