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 195, creating your own holiday when there's nothing to look forward to.

Now right now we're still in a pandemic, but if you're listening to this in non-pandemic times, first, high, how's it going over there?

This episode still works. February and March struggle to bring the thunder.

I mean, it's just the way it is. We're past the lovely winter holiday gauntlet, we're past the energy around fresh starts of January.

We're still weeks away from spring break, if you get a spring break, and for sure we're months away from summer vacation.

And right now, you throw the pandemic in there. I'm not going anywhere. Like we're not going anywhere. We're still doing this.

We're still mostly home, day after day. A lot of you have kids in all online school or a hybrid, and it's hard to find any kind of routine when every day looks a little bit different.

We're still in that. So we need something to look forward to for real.

So rather than just waiting for July or for a vaccine or for any kind of gathering or celebration to count, only when things are back to normal, we're going to be proactive.

Y'all, I want all of us to create our own holiday sometime in the next few weeks. February or March, try for February.

You likely do not need two months to play in this. This is very, very simple. I also know that this is like super specific and maybe even kind of silly.

And you're like, I don't have time for this. But silly is not bad. And also, if you recall from episode 191 called naming what matters for 2021,

I shared that one of the things that matters most to me this year is finding joy, creating joy, keeping an eye out for joy, and maybe even serving it up on a podcast episode platter for you guys.

Joy is essential all the time for our mental health, not happiness, joy.

And just like for the experience of like being alive as a human on the surface in connection with other humans on the surface, we need joy.

But as it's been said by me and many others, this year 2021 feels extra important for that. We need some joy.

So I want to show you how to create your own in this very specific way by literally making up a holiday out of nothing for just you and your people, whoever those people are.

You ready? We need this you guys. We need bespoke holidays.

I am throwing you a lifeline. You might not have known you needed at least in this particular form. But we're going to walk through this together. I've got a plan. I've got steps for you to create something that's fun and memorable and it matters to you.

So these are the questions I want you to ask yourself and then answer in this particular order so that you are not spinning your wheels in no direction.

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