Hey hey, welcome to the lazy genius podcast. I am 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 222, taking care of yourself as the world opens up. Are you tired yet? I'm talking about the pandemic. Me too.

But I think we're probably more tired of living it and where we are right now is still pretty rocky.

We have got the Delta variant coming. It's been recommended that all kids wear a mask to school, which is hard to process for a lot of parents and teachers.

And then there are different parts of the world that are still in various stages of lockdown.

Plus we all have different health issues and experiences with a vaccine. We have been through different experiences this last year and a half.

And it's changed just all in different ways. And then there is the whole like, how do I care how conversational people again?

How does this work? It's just it's a lot of things. So today I want to talk about taking care of yourself as the world opens up.

We will lay some groundwork and then apply a couple of principles, a couple of lazy genius principles from the book, The lazy genius way.

Freedy consider over these next few weeks, especially as we move out of summer and into a more steady routine.

At least we assume it's going to be a more steady routine. We leave every possibility open, I suppose.

So when I was preparing for this episode, I started listing out all of the things that we might feel challenged by as the world opens up.

And this list was very long. Some of the things were, we stuff involving masks, right?

So in the beginning of the pandemic, if someone did not wear a mask, there was a certain association there, right?

None of us enjoy wearing masks, but we were mostly trying to do good by our neighbors by making a collective sacrifice to keep as many people safe as possible.

And so there was a stigma for sure on people who did not want to wear masks and did not buy by that.

Now a couple of months ago, in certain parts of the US, mask mandates really started to fall off, right?

Especially for people who were vaccinated. So suddenly you're in target and because you're vaccinated, you're not wearing a mask.

And it feels really strange. Essentially there's just a lot of strong opinions around masks.

And as the world opens up and you walk into it, you're going to be confronted by those differing strong opinions all at once.

No matter what your own particular stance is. So that on its own is just a lot. That's just one thing, right?

Some of the other things you could be afraid of your kids getting sick. Kids aren't vaccinated yet.

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