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Efficiency and optimization are at odds with things like children, emergencies, both small and large that seem to fall on your shoulders, hormones, children, phone calls from parents that could be that someone is injured or someone just read something funny and they wanted to share it with you. Children, traffic children, and also children. If you plan with efficiency and optimization at the center, you're just going to lose the thread. Instead, I want you to plan based on your people, and that includes yourself. Humanity cannot be sacrificed on the altar of productivity. And often during a busy season, we can get so fixated on planning our days down to the minute, checking off boxes left and right, doing the most in as little time as possible, and still somehow not having enough time to do the things we want to do that we get to the end of the day and we are exhausted from our highly efficient day. Efficient days rarely have rest built in. Productive days rarely have mediocre showings that we're okay with focusing on moving so fast. It distracts us from moving toward our people, including ourselves. Just last week, I had, like a bonkers busy weekend. All five of us, family members, we were ships passing in the night, going from thing to thing in, like, different combinations of people. Plus my husband and one of my kids. Both were not feeling well all weekend, so the combinations never included all five of us at once. It wasn't until Sunday night when we all started, like, pulling out leftovers for dinner, that I realized it was the first time that all five of us had been together on purpose in 48 hours. I was moving so quickly and operating so efficiently through that busy weekend. That was fun. It had a lot of great things in it that I forgot about. The people. I mean, I had checklists to remember, you know, to bring that sweater for a friend to church and to pick up milk on the way home from the pool. And like, on and on and on. The days were actually planned for really well. I zoomed through everything on schedule. I did a great job planning and executing my plan. But until I slowed down and sat at the table with my family, I looked around and it was the first time I was like, whoa, we haven't, we haven't, like, done this in a while. I haven't seen you guys. I know that there are seasons of life when typical rhythms don't happen because life is busy. That's normal. But notice that the speed at which you're Trying to optimize your life, it can interfere with your awareness of your life. The faster we go, the harder it is to see. So instead of trying to move so fast, slow down and see your people. The fourth thing to avoid when planning a busy season is ignoring your season of life. This is a common refrain around here, but it's also extra important to pay attention to during seasonal training transitions like the one that we're in right now. We are transitioning from the summer to the school year, from the summer to the fall, from everyone being like a little more relaxed to needing to, you know, pick up the pace. Many other options now, and also at all times of the year. This episode is true no matter what busy season you are in. So when you are transitioning from one season of the calendar to another, you must also pay attention to your season of life. If you ignore how that has changed, what adjustments you need to make because kids are at different schools or remote work hours become less flexible, or it's August and hot, but you want soup so bad, you're going to make plans and even try and create systems that are not in line with your season of life. So instead of ignoring your season of life, embrace it. Examine it. What is going on? What do you need? What are the hardest things about this particular season? Where are you wishing things were different? There are lots of questions you could ask and some of them are seasonal and specific in the playbooks, by the way, if you want help kind of thinking through those things. But the point here is just to pay attention. Notice. Remember, that's one of the words of our plan acronym. You have to prepare, adjust and notice in equal measure in order to live a life that matters to you. Not just prepare, prepare, prepare. You have to notice where you are and make adjustments according to your season of life. This is a really specific example, but my oldest has his learner's permit and he's learning to drive. Understandably, he takes longer to get places than I do or his dad does. His stops at stop signs are as cautious as they come. So we are in a season of life where we need to adjust how soon we need to leave, when we need to go somewhere. We need to build in like an extra 10 minute buffer compared to other seasons of life so that my kid can adjust his mirrors and he can back out of the driveway and then do it again because he ran into a bush and we need to get to wherever we're all going. Swing. Then it takes us a little longer if we ignore that season of life. I would not make the adjustment of time and I would just end up resenting my kid for taking so long. I don't want to do that. I don't want him to feel the responsibility of, like, keeping us from being late or like constantly being on him to hurry out the door to drive faster. Or like, I need to honor the season of life we're in and just build in some more time. So instead of ignoring your season of life, embrace it. And the fifth thing to avoid when planning a busy season is ignoring yourself. A lot of you listening to this podcast carry the lion's share of the responsibilities in your home and family, maybe even in your job. You've got a lot going on, no matter who you are, what matters to you, where you live, or how many people you live with. This podcast attracts people who have a lot going on because you're looking for a way to make it all feel a little easier without losing your mind or your humanity. But a lot of you still forget about your humanity. You forget about resting, having fun, taking a break, slowing down breathing so you can stay calm, running or dancing so you can get the stress out. You struggle to plan going out with a friend or taking a walk after dinner, or going to bed while there's still laundry in the laundry basket. So instead of ignoring yourself, listen to yourself. Pay attention to how tired you are, how snappy you are being, what your body is craving, how shallow your breathing is, what your thoughts are dwelling on, what you love doing, what makes you feel the most like yourself. Listen to yourself. Pay attention to what makes you feel joyful and at peace. Listen when you start laughing hard and enjoy it. Be in that moment. Listen to how fast your heart starts beating when you look at all the things you're about to put on your calendar. Listen to the tone of your voice when you're talking to your partner about changes in division of labor. Listen to your yawn when it's time to go to bed early. Listen to your intuition when you really don't want to say yes to this work thing that's optional but doesn't really feel like it's optional. And it's just another example of your boss taking advantage of your, like, apparent availability because you don't have kids. So of course you can totally do this extra thing. Listen, listen, listen. Listen to yourself. If you keep these five things in mind and you avoid them, you're going to be in a much kinder, more compassionate headspace. And you can make slower, wiser decisions that serve your life and the values you hold with the most esteem. I'm pretty sure I just said that last part that way because I've been reading Jane Eyre, but I'm I'm fine with it. We can hold things in in high in in high esteem. So I get that these five things are less practical than like specific ways to organize your to do list, which is coming up in a couple weeks. But pull out your trusty copy of the plan. You can read the chapter on to do lists. You can go listen to episode 362, a simple strategy for your to do list if you just need like a quick leg up. Or you can go order yourself a fall playbook and you can let the compassionate seasonal open handed planning unfold for you inside of its truly adorable pages. We started making these things last year. They are without question my favorite planning tool ever. There's actually an entire podcast episode about them. But really that episode it helps you think about seasonal planning in general, keeping it small and managing and kind. So even if you don't use a playbook, you can listen to episode 417. I think it'd be really helpful for you. There is a link in the show notes to learn more about the playbooks or you can go to the lacygeniuscollective.com playbooks to check them out. Now it's a great time to spend just 12 bucks cheaper than most planners to get a compassionate leg up on your upcoming season. That posture is so much more valuable than a steak burrito from Chipotle that you just have no idea. Although I really do love a steak burrito from Chipotle. Plus you're supporting two separate women owned businesses with your playbook. Order me of course. I'm one of the women who owns a small business and then we partner with a fabulous company out of Asheville, North Carolina called Otter Pine, which is also a woman owned business and it's woman run. They do the final design for this. They do printing. They do fulfillment. Your small purchase will make your life easier, but it will also support small businesses, which is so cool. I'm so grateful for that. Okay, so to recap, as you enter into this busy season or any that come your way in the future, avoid planning too far out. Instead plan on a smaller scale. Avoid systemizing everything and instead solve one small problem at a time. Avoid moving so fast and instead slow down and see your people. Avoid ignoring your season of life and instead embrace it. And avoid ignoring yourself and listen to yourself instead. Those are the five things to avoid when planning a Busy season. All right, let's do something fun and new. After the main episode is over, I'm gonna start sharing a little something just for fun. It might be lazy, genius related. It might be from my own life. It might be what I ordered from Amazon, or I got a Trader Joe's that I'm at obsessed with just a little extra something. And that's actually what we're going to call this part of the episode, a little extra something. So today's little extra something is a kid chore hack that has brought me more success than I anticipated. And y', all, it is a snake draft. Most of you are familiar with snake drafts from the podcast with Knox and Jamie. So what I do is I make a list of chores divisible by three, because I have three children. And then the kids that either draw names or flip a coin or, like, play rock, paper, scissors to determine the order that they get to choose their chores from that list. And just in case you're unfamiliar with a snake draft, you follow the order drawn. So in my kid's case, it would be, you know, it's 1, 2, 3. And then you reverse that order for the next round. So be 3, 2, 1. So if my kids draw names where Sam gets first pick, Annie gets second pick, and Ben gets third, Sam picks the nanny, the bench, then Ben, then Annie, then Sam, the order reverses like the shape of a snake. It keeps going. Actually, you can forget about the snake if you want. It just makes the last pick just as valuable as the first pick because the last person gets to pick back to back. Anyway, so we have done this a few times with chores around the house, and it has been so funny and so fun. I make the list, I help them choose their order, you know, moderate the choosing of the chores so no one gets, like, unintentionally hosed. And then I leave them to it because they're all doing stuff at the same time. They end up helping each other anyway, which is cute. And when they're all bored and it's like a screen free time in the house, or they don't realize in their bones that doing something productive is actually pretty fulfilling. Being, like, helpful around the house actually feels kind of good. They have a surprisingly good time now using a snake draft and one long list of chores. It might not work for everybody. And listen, it might not even work for us for very long, but it's working right now, and that's all I can ask for. Just find something that works for you right now. Forever is not required and that was just a little extra something. Okay, before we go, let's celebrate the Lazy Genius of the Week. This week it is Kendall Thomas. Y' all are not ready for how good this is. Kendall writes. When our oldest started school, I opened a family Gmail account using our last name. This email address is used for all communication related to our children, school doctor, sports team, etc. This way my personal and business email inboxes are not flooded with school mail and it doesn't get lost in the spam. Since we don't use the family email address for anything else, my husband and I both can have the family email on our phones so that we both can keep an eye on it. This has majorly helped with digital communication and organization. Kindle this is spectacular. I don't know why I've never thought of this before. If people out there listening have younger kids do this immediately. This is brilliant. It is absolutely brilliant. The first time I read it I thought I might be too far gone to have this work for me. Like my oldest is already about to go into 10th grade. I but then I made it smaller. Do you remember last week Ashley? She was our Lazy Genius of the week and she replaced her fridge contents week by week rather than all at once when her power was out during a hurricane. I did this with emails. As child related emails entered my inbox, I would just click on the subscriber information button in that email and I would change the email address. I did it slowly rather than all at once and now anytime there's a new form to fill out or I need to update my contact info, I use the new email address. This is just brilliant and genuinely, genuinely works. Kendyndall, thank you for such a fantastic idea and congratulations on being the Lazy Genius of the week. One other thing I already mentioned that we will be adding to episodes is a little pep talk at the end because I think there's never a day where we don't need one. So today I could use a pep talk for when I am so annoyed that I'm so busy and I want everyone to just like stop complaining and get on board and stop forcing me to yell at them. That's how I'm feeling right now. Busyness makes us both hyper focused and distracted at the same time. We can get so locked in on getting things done or continuing to move or checking off boxes or sticking to a plan or whatever that we just stop seeing what's around us. And it's often the things that really matter the most. Right when we're busy and hyper focused. We also forget that our circumstances are not what is making us annoyed and overwhelmed and maybe even a little bit mean. It's our posture towards our circumstances. So as you feel, as we all feel the busyness creeping in, be kind. When the grip of keeping up and finishing what you set out to do and doing all of those things alone take hold. Pay attention. Be kind to yourself and to other people. Remember that you you don't have to keep up, not as the main thing, not anymore. You can choose to be integrated instead, to stay steady within yourself. Even when circumstances are crazy pants. You can choose to see the good that's here now. Even though a lot of things are pulling you under, you can remember that small steps of breathing and kindness even in this very moment will do far more good than any big system or completed to do list ever will. Who you are on the inside is more important than what you accomplish on the outside. So when you feel the rage rise, it's because you're forgetting what matters. So start small and be kind. If this episode was helpful to you, or if you've been looking for a way to support the work that we do here, it would mean the world if you would share this episode with a friend or leave a kind review on Apple Podcasts. Both of those things seem small, and in some ways they are. But it's those small things that add up to get the show in front of more people. And the world needs more lazy geniuses for sure. So thank you so much for listening, sharing and supporting this work. This podcast is part of the Odyssey Family and the Office Ladies Network. This episode is hosted by me, Kendra Adachi, an executive produced by Kendra Adachi, Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey. Special thanks to Leah Jarvis for weekly production. If you'd like a podcast podcast recap every other week, including the Lazy Genius of the Week and a little extra something, be sure to sign up for the latest Lazy Listens email that goes out every other Friday. Head to the lazygeniuscollective.com listens. Thanks y' all for listening and for being lazy geniuses in the world. Until next time, be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. I'm Kendra and I'll see you next week.

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