Hi everyone, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today's episode 134, how to be happy with the gifts you give. It's the first week of December and you might have already bought some Christmas or holiday gifts last weekend during Black Friday.

It's that time. There's a shopping center in my city that I pass pretty much every day and it's the biggest, like most robust one that we have in the traffic around there already. It's just bonkers and we'll only get worse as the month goes on.

We're all very much in like gift giving and gift buying mode and spending a lot of time on it or at least gearing up to.

I want to help you be happy with the gifts you give and be more strategic and thoughtful about the time you spend on finding and buying those gifts.

We're going to go through a step by step process and I think that by the end of this episode you'll feel so much better about things and really excited to get gifts for your people.

If you like searching for gifts and buying and wrapping and doing all the things, I think this episode will help you too.

It'll just give you a framework for your thoughtfulness so you can have more space for other fun holiday things as the month goes on.

Now this episode is more about how to think about buying gifts. I might mention a couple of specific things but if you're looking for actual gift ideas, I have a gift guide because I want to offer really great ideas for you.

But this gift guide is different than a lot that I see around. Everything on this. I'm talking every single thing. I have and I use and love.

I'm only recommending things that I know work and have enhanced my life and my family's lives.

So know that if you buy something from my guide, it has been tested for goodness.

You can find a link to the gift guide in the show notes or just open up your laptop right now while we're talking and go to the lazygenuscollective.com slash blog slash 2019 gift guide.

Okay, let's walk through a few steps so that you're happy with what gifts you give. Step one, write everything down, like everything.

Now I have a free download for you if you want to like use it digitally or print it out to write in it. But it's so helpful to write everything down.

So if you want to help like not have anything about it, there's a download. There's a link in the show notes for that. But here's what you do.

Think through all the people you want to give a gift to family obviously, friends, kids, teachers, co-workers, neighbors, your babysitter, just like write down all the people.

Also write down for each person the budget gift ideas for that person when you're going to give that person their gift, which helps with when you need to have it bought.

I also like to have a place for if I bought the gift or not because like we forget what we bought in those you know late night internet scrolling sessions.

So write everything down all at once. Now again, if you want to help with that, have a free download for you so you can check the link in the show notes.

Also by writing everything down, you see what you need to think about over the next few days like I'm talking like right now or the next few days.

You have to decide what you're going to get people. I know that's kind of dumb to say, but like that's why buying gifts is overwhelming. It's a lot of decisions about a lot of different people.

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