#208 - Essentializing Your Phone Apps
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today, I want to help you essentialize your phone apps. In this episode, we’re going to specifically apply the Lazy Genius principle of essentializing to your phone apps to that you can go from being overwhelmed or annoyed or distracted by your apps to having them serve you in a way that matters.
Stuff Mentioned
- Find all of the Lazy Genius principles in my book, The Lazy Genius Way (affiliate link).
- If you’re looking for a resource about adult screentime, there’s an episode for that. Listen to it here.
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown (p.s. he has a new book out called Effortless!)
- Instagram is where I hang out the most online, so I’d love for you to join me over there @thelazygenius.
- Our Lazy Genius of the Week is Liz Wienke with her reminder to decide once and batch it.
- Download a transcript of this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I am Kendra Adachi and I'm here to |
| 0:06.0 | help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. |
| 0:10.5 | Today is episode 208, essentializing your phone apps. I'm guessing if you're listening |
| 0:16.1 | to a podcast, you have a smartphone. It is not correct to say that everyone has one |
| 0:21.5 | since not everyone does for many reasons, but for the subset of humanity that is this |
| 0:26.6 | audience, it is likely that everyone has one. So today, I want to help you essentialize |
| 0:31.2 | your phone apps. Essentialize is one of 13 lazy genius principles in my book, The Lazy |
| 0:37.2 | Genius Way, which currently has over 1800 five star reviews on Amazon. Oh my gosh! If |
| 0:43.0 | you want to see if it's right for you. In this episode, we're going to specifically |
| 0:46.6 | apply the principle of essentializing to your phone apps so that you can go from being |
| 0:51.7 | overwhelmed or annoyed or distracted by your apps to having them serve you in a way that |
| 0:58.2 | matters. Before we get started, this is not an episode about screen time. There is one |
| 1:04.0 | of those and it's actually super fantastic. It's episode 196, How to Lazy Genius Adult |
| 1:09.8 | Screen Time. And the feedback, the week that that episode came out was so good, so encouraging, |
| 1:16.3 | no one felt shamed or judged about how much they're on their phones because that's not |
| 1:21.8 | the point, is it? The point is naming what matters to you and making choices to support |
| 1:26.5 | that. So just so you know what you're getting into today, this is not an episode about the |
| 1:31.8 | time you spend on your phone that is episode 196. This is focused solely on your apps, |
| 1:37.2 | the ones you have, when you interact with them and how they are stored. Now, if we're |
| 1:42.9 | going to essentialize your phone apps, we need to know what essentializing is, right? |
| 1:47.7 | The word essentialism was coined by Greg McHughn in his book Essentialism, which is a fantastic |
| 1:54.4 | read. And it focused more though on your work and vocation. Basically, you want to only |
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