Hi there! 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 is episode 184. Find your holiday decorating personality.

It's the middle of November and some of you might have already gone through the process of decorating or you're putting it off because it's overwhelming.

Or maybe you already know when you're going to do it, you always do it the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Which is coming up, which is crazy. But the point is it's kind of time to start thinking about it if holiday decorating matters to you.

And it can be overwhelming. So today I want to give you a lens through which to view your decorating so you can find your holiday decorating personality.

And then I'm going to offer five steps on getting yourself prepared to actually do it.

We want fun, not frustration. So let's jump in.

Alright, before we start, we have to name what matters, right?

Always every process around here begins with naming what matters because it's that important.

If we don't name what matters, we can lose sight of why we're doing something or who we're doing it for.

We can burn out and get grumpy or lose interest and why we were doing the things in the first place.

Which it just doesn't sound like the kind of holiday festive marionments that we're going for here in the first place.

So name what matters as you consider that as you consider what matters to you at Christmas or maybe just what matters in this particular kind of like winter holiday season.

I want you to think about what kind of decorating makes the most sense for you.

Okay. For you, your family, whoever you share your home with, if other people have opinions, you might want to ask them.

But I think that there are three main types of techniques or kind of personalities when it comes to actually putting decorations up.

Clearing the decks, leading with your senses and going slow.

Clear the decks decorators, like to get everything out and up in like record time, you know, for maximum holiday enjoyment.

It's kind of like those Instagram reels where you snap and then whatever's in front of the camera is magically transformed, you know.

That's kind of what this is. It's like efficient and fun and sometimes chaotic.

But the point is to get the decorations up so that you can focus on the holiday movies and the cocoa and whatever else matters.

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