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's episode 189, a pep talk for the final stretch. This episode is releasing December 21st. We are almost there. We have almost made it through this impossible year.

I would love to just take a couple of minutes to find our position in it, our position in our days right now.

There's so much looking back at the end of the year with all our favorites of 2020 lists, which I have totally contributed to and love, and we are days away from a lot of guidance to look forward with goal setting and dreams for 2021.

All of those are lovely and have their place and are not bad in the slightest. The problem isn't the looking back or the looking forward.

For this year, it could be that the problem is more about the distraction of either from where we are.

I know for me, I need to position myself right here, right smack dab in the middle of today.

So I want to share just a couple of positioning thoughts and the hope that they will help you face this final stretch in a way that feels good to you based on what matters.

The first thought is short and a little tongue and cheek, but it's that 2021 is not going to save us.

So it's heard it said we might have said it ourselves and to a point it is true turning the page from one year to another isn't going to magically change the circumstances of 2020.

I want to acknowledge that and validate that.

But my second thought is that yes, 2020 is not going to save us, but there is tremendous power in the mental shift of finding ourselves in 2021.

I personally have an optimism about entering a new year and it feeling better in my actual body that we made it out of this year.

Like we did it, right?

But a lot of the language around well 2020 is just a new number on the same issues.

And I think to a point that that is absolutely true, but just staying in that place, it doesn't offer us any hope.

And we need hope.

We also need a paradigm shift and finally being out of this year and knowing we made it, I think it's going to have a tangible impact on how we see our days.

So that's two thoughts kind of as one as you sit in this final stretch and feel a sense of hope for what's coming.

Don't let the narrative that 2021 is more of the same.

Don't let that take away your hope.

And if you're super, super hopeful, there is an invitation to remember that not everyone feels the same amount of hope as you do.

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