Hello there! You're listening 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's episode 225

is the shoe episode. We are going to plow through common challenges we all face with shoes

and apply some lazy genius principles to help make those challenges easier. Obviously we cannot cover

every possible shoe scenario but I'm hoping to cover some common ones to help cover our bases

and also to give you some practice on applying principles so you can do it for yourself and your

personal shoe challenges. There are two main categories that we're going to zoom through today

when it comes to shoes. Shoe organization and shoe rhythms. Don't you love how deeply specific

those episodes is? So I'm going to explain that second one, the shoe rhythms more when we get to it.

And by the way, this is not just an episode about family shoes or kids shoes like this is for

everybody. Okay. Now, real quick though, before we look at the categories, let's have a quick chat

about personal choice. You can decide how many shoes you want to own. You can decide how many

shoes you want your kids to own. You can decide if you like new shoes or used shoes or shoes you

invest in or shoes that can be cheap because they're not going to make it through half a year anyway.

You get to decide what matters about your shoes. So much of what we'll talk about in this episode

is impacted by how many shoes you own. Now, I'm not saying that you need to have fewer shoes

for your life to work about her at all, but those two things are connected. Now, until recently,

I had really never been a huge fan of shoes. Emily P. Freeman, author, podcaster, and my favorite

human once told me that she's lost more shoes than I own in totality. And that was that was

at a time of my life when I really didn't care about shoes and I had only a handful of pairs.

But in the last couple of years, I have started to broaden my shoe horizons and in beginning to

better understand the sheer joy that shoes can bring. I have added shoes to my life way more than

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