Hi there, you are 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 247. What to do now to make spring cleaning easier later? It's not spring

y'all, I know. Tomorrow is the first day of February and that is decidedly winter. However,

the whole point of the magic question, what can I do now to make something easier later,

which is a lazy genius principle, by the way, is to think ahead just a little bit. That's

the whole point. We're going to do that today with spring cleaning. Now first a word about

spring cleaning. We're about to enter a time of the year where we're bored. It is very

normal to feel like February and March are kind of humdrum months. Also the word humdrum,

I love that that just came out of my mouth. It's cold, it's a cold season for at least for

most of us where we live. Maybe most is not fair, you know what I'm saying? There aren't

any gathering holidays, you know, I mean Valentine's Day, but that doesn't really count.

You're not close enough to the end of school for that to really matter yet and you're

far enough away from the beginning of the year where all of that new year energy has

petered out pretty significantly. It can just be kind of a bummer of the time of a year.

Now before we get into spring cleaning talk, I want to offer a suggestion for this season

of the year. Now is a great time to do a few things if you want.

A, take a personal retreat, which you can learn how to lazy genius an episode 240, how

to plan a personal retreat. B, create a fake holiday or celebration for your people, which

you can learn about in episode 195, create your own holiday when there's nothing to look

forward to. And then see you could host a book swap, which you can learn how to do in

episode 72. The lazy genius hosts a book swap. The point is I just want to encourage you,

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