Hi there! You are 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 is episode 240, How to Plan a Personal Retreat. This episode was a last-minute

edition. A week or so ago I sent out the latest Lazy Letter, which is a monthly

newsletter that is one of my favorite things to write, one of your favorite things to get,

which is so kind. Anyway, in that letter, I mentioned taking a personal retreat day, the week

between Christmas and the New Year, and a woman named Rebecca emailed back asking if I could explain

that more. Like, what do you do? How do you plan it? Where do you go? How do you structure it?

And I realized that I had never really talked about this before, and that it would be a much

better episode than the one we had originally planned for today. So here we are. Let's talk about

how to plan a personal retreat. Step one is to schedule the time. That's kind of a duh, but also,

it gets forgotten a lot. This episode is releasing on December 13th, and I wonder if a lot of you

might have the opportunity to take some time the week between Christmas and the New Year, like I do.

A lot of people have the week off already, or simply just take the week off. Also, the energy

between those two holidays is very retreaty. You know, it's got a great vibe for just being a person.

So the first step is to schedule your time. Schedule it. Perhaps start by looking at that last week

of the calendar year. Now, I like to take a day, or like a day-ish. My ideal is to leave in the

morning. I kiss the kids in the morning, and then I go and I have coffee and breakfast somewhere,

and then I will come back by dinner. Or my kids have screen time usually on most days before dinner.

So sometimes I'll actually come home right at the start of that screen time, so I can get kind of

some chill time at home without having any real responsibilities, but I can still be home. You know,

I can kind of have an on-ramp back into being home. But that's what a day means for me. From

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