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 206, the Lazy Genius Guide to buying great gifts. It is April and we are entering teacher appreciation week soon, then it's Mother's Day and Father's Day in the end of school.

And now that pandemic guidelines are loosening, people are planning weddings and baby showers, then of course there are birthdays and holidays and all the regular things.

We have many opportunities to buy gifts for people and it can be overwhelming.

So today we're going to Lazy Genius gift giving. We're going to talk about what's holding you back, how to know what someone wants without asking them, how to remember that you need a gift before it is too late.

And what Lazy Genius principles you can apply to making sure that you and the person you're getting a gift for, enjoy the whole thing.

So I covered about half of what I'm going to share today in a very, very early episode of the Lazy Genius Podcast.

It was episode 12, I think, so like a long time ago called the Lazy Genius Buys a Gift.

And y'all, it is so solid. I went back and listened to it because I didn't want to like repeat myself too much.

So we're actually going to like repeat a good bit of it today because it was very helpful. I am adding some new helpful next steps and also using some Lazy Genius principles specifically.

But if you want to listen to that episode, you can those were the days when I had a format for this podcast where we had a problem, a pitch and a playbook.

The English degree and me was coming out really big with all that with all that alliteration.

Okay, so first up, what is holding you back when it comes to buying gifts? I think it's the myth of the perfect gift.

You think that every gift should be the most amazing one ever. Like new bike as a kid kind of level of amazing.

And some of you try to do that. Some of you work so hard to find the perfect gift and you try to be wait for it, a genius about it.

You scour the internet, you look at all the gift guides, you spend more money than you need to because you're trying to be amazing or you forgot gives that you already got.

And you don't have the margin to think creatively. So you just buy something super expensive. Like there are a lot of reasons and a lot of ways that you can try to be a genius about giving gifts.

Now, some of you really want to be thoughtful about your gifts and you want to give something amazing. You want it to be perfect to make the person happy, but you just do not have the energy to do it.

And you know that you can never be perfect at it. And so you just get really lazy and get everyone a Starbucks gift card.

Now, that is not bad. Neither of those things really are bad.

But I'm guessing you like to be somewhere in the middle of those, right? Like you want to be a thoughtful gift giver, but you also can't let it run your life or ruin your budget.

So we need to lazy genius this, right? I'm so glad we get to do this episode together. Okay, so the first thing that we need to do is release the pressure of the perfect gift.

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