#136 - Ten Ideas for a Holiday Reset

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

We have one week until Christmas, and it might already be time for a reset. No matter how intentional we are, how much margin we create, things surprise us. And that’s okay and normal and we’ll all be fine. Here are ten tips for a reset in case you need one.

Stuff Mentioned

A few crowdsourced Lazy Genius holiday traveling road trip tips. Make that trip to visit grandma enjoyable from the first mile through pulling back into your driveway. And here's a companion episode for holiday road trips.
I’ve put my favorite Christmas albums and nine mood-based holiday playlists I had the most fun making for you in this blog post.
Here’s a helpful episode about creating traditions for the holidays or for everyday life.
Andrew Peterson’s book Adorning the Dark (Amazon affiliate link)
If you’re interested, here’s that article on The Kitchn about Change Your Life Chicken.
Netflix has a show that’s just a fireplace burning. Bonus: You have control of the volume of the crackle.
If you want to try your hand at baking but you need a place to start, try my Baking Mini-Series here.
All of my baking-related podcast episodes: The Lazy Genius and Holiday Baking, The Lazy Genius Bakes Cookies, The Lazy Genius Bakes Bread, and Lazy Genius Baking with Jamie Golden.
Read this before you get started so your holiday baking will involve as little murder as possible.
The Lazy Genius Makes Soup; use this if you want to make your life easier later. P.S. There’s an Instagram saved story on how I make my tomato soup if that’s your kind of thing.
Two podcast episodes I recommend for taking care of yourself this season: The Lazy Genius Guide to Self-Care and The Lazy Genius Daily Act of Kindness.

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0:00.0	Hi lazy geniuses and happy December. You're listening to the lazy genius podcast. I'm Kendra
0:07.4	Dachie and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about
0:11.5	the things that don't. This is episode 136. 10 ideas for a holiday reset. We have one
0:18.9	week until Christmas and it might already be time for a reset. Everything is starting
0:24.9	to happen a bit at the same time with gifts and parties and cookie baking and events on
0:30.4	all the things. When I filled out my holiday docket back in October, I did not anticipate
0:37.2	my son's school Christmas performance where he's in the show choir you guys. He has multiple
0:42.8	after-school rehearsals. He has an evening performance. Everything was like very lovingly
0:47.6	crafted and planned but that one surprised me and we all get that. We all have surprises.
0:53.0	No matter how intentional we are with our time, how much margin we create, things surprise
0:57.6	us and that's okay and normal. We're all going to be fine. As we have this last week and
1:02.9	before Christmas though, schools are letting out soon. We're packing up our stuff to visit
1:06.9	Grimmos. Oh that reminds me. I will put a link in the show notes to an episode about traveling
1:12.1	and a blog post with all of your travel tips. Should you need them? Today I want to share
1:17.0	10 ideas for a holiday reset. Frankly these are just great practices for any reset. We
1:22.8	are talking in terms of Christmas related stuff because it's Christmas time but these ideas
1:27.4	are applicable in all the seasons. Alright so let's jump in. Number one, name what matters.
1:35.1	Always number one, always always. If we don't name, actually say it out loud, write it down.
1:41.6	What matters will just keep doing whatever is in front of us and forget about the importance
1:47.7	of something until it's too late and we don't want that. So first name what matters.
1:54.7	Name what matters today, this weekend, next weekend on your drive to a family gathering.
2:00.5	When you're having conversations with your uncle Bill about politics and you want to
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