Hi there! You're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachie and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 153. Time, management, and time makes no sense. We are still in the coronavirus pandemic, but honestly there are lots of times when time makes no sense.

Having a newborn baby, for example, time makes no sense then. When you are home with tiny kids and nobody's in school and you live like the same kind of day over and over again, time doesn't make sense there either.

When you watch someone you love, go through chemotherapy. When you're waiting to hear back from graduate schools and you don't have a job yet and you wonder if you're supposed to get one or just keep waiting.

Honestly, there are months when just being on my period turns time upside down. Basically anything that takes your regular average day and the regular average things that you normally do to fill it and then shifts it around and upside down, it's a struggle to get a handle on how to manage our time.

Obviously the situation we're all in right now is a massive example of that, but it's real outside of the pandemic too.

So today we're going to revisit the three lazy genius pillars of time through the lens of time making no sense.

Before we get into those, one way you can use your time when time makes no sense is to do something ridiculous and fun, something like the favorites file.

If you're new here or didn't hear me talk about it last week on the podcast or you don't follow me on Instagram, you don't know what that is.

So let me tell you real quick, the favorites file is a free downloadable little project. I made just because we just need to have some fun.

It's where you name all kinds of favorite things in pop culture. There are directions and assignments, obvious things like favorite movie and TV show, but also favorite episode, the actor who gets like a season pass, who you'd watch in anything, who you'd like to be stuck with during a quarantine, all kinds of important stuff.

Last week we went through the show file. Today we start the film file. Now you can obviously download these whenever and fill them out whenever you want to, but it's such a fun project and it's an extra fun project to do together.

Now your together could be a few friends and you have this fun thing to connect you during social distancing and you like do it over a boxer or something like that where you talk about all your lists.

Or you could do it like in a bigger together on Instagram with me. So we have got some fun like prompts of really stupid but very still very important stuff to share every day.

You're welcome to share once occasionally every single time, just whatever kind of you know gets you excited to answer.

And then we've got some templates that you can put your Instagram stories to fill out your answers and share them that way.

The whole point is just for us to do something fun. We want to distract ourselves from all the craziness in the world when we need to and maybe still feel like the satisfaction of finishing a project.

Even if that project is making a bunch of lists, then involve people we will never meet. So if you want it, there's a link in the show notes or you can go to the lazy genius collective.com slash TFF for the favorites file.

And please just come play on Instagram too. You can share some fun tidbits about yourself by sharing your list. Today's prompt is about your favorite movie theater experience.

So you can get all that info for all that stuff at the lazy genius on Instagram.

I have been spending some of my time working on my favorites file and it is time well spent for my emotional health for sure.

But obviously we all have a lot more to do every day than that. In fact, some of us feel busier now being home than we did before.

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