Hi everyone, 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 254. Chores I do every day. This is kind of like the new recipe episode I did a couple of weeks ago where I shared how I choose new recipes.

It's not that you need to choose them in the same way I do or that you need to do chores in the same way I do. It's more about giving you an example and a possible framework for how you might choose what you do.

Now in that episode I shared the four questions I always ask myself when I get the new recipe itch and today for this episode it's a similar vibe except there are not four questions, there's just one. You're not going to, it's going to blow your mind guys. What matters most? You guys, what matters most? Are you surprised? Of course you're not. That is so crucial for how I decide what chores I'm going to do every day.

I don't have a lot of time. You probably don't either and even if you do most of us don't necessarily want to spend all of it doing chores. Now some chores you might like, you know, some are therapeutic and calming.

Some give you a sense of accomplishment and purpose and that's fantastic. But I think it's always good to evaluate what we're doing, what we're not doing and what we think we should be doing.

And then see what that means for what we actually do and all of that starts with what matters most. So what I want you to think about is what matters most about how your home looks and how it feels.

You also might want to add the category of how it's cared for or maintained that might be really important. Like there's a, there's a daily chore or task that keeps your home or some part of it and good working order and that's important to you and that's great.

But I probably the primary pair of things that most of us are going to consider is how our home looks and how it feels. Now here's where you might trip up and you don't need to.

You get to decide what matters about how your home looks and feels. You don't have to conform to a style to a level of order to a specific definition of welcome that you think other people do.

You can decide what matters about your home without shame or embarrassment. We all get to decide. Once you do decide, you have a better idea of what daily chores contribute to that rather than having an endless list of chores you could do and then you don't really do anything because you're overwhelmed by all the options.

So as an example, I am going to share with you the three things that matter to me about how my home looks and feels and the practical ways and specific chores I do every day to support those things that matter.

So my three things are it matters most that my home feels cozy calm and ready for the next thing.

I like it to feel cozy because I want a home that you want to be in. I want my family to enjoy coming home. I want to enjoy being at home. I'm here every single day.

I want people who visit to feel at home and that it's an enjoyable comfortable space to be in. Now, calm is pretty self explanatory.

My outside some of you are like this my outsides impact my insights if I'm in a cluttered messy home.

Not it's my own home, by the way, it's not anyone else's home because someone else's home has a different purpose in my life than my own home does.

So just so you know, it's not like clutter in general does this, but for my own home.

If it is messy or cluttered, I'm not going to explode, you know, but it does make my thinking and my processing a little messy and cluttered.

I have a harder time focusing when there's a lot of visual stimulation. That doesn't mean I'm obsessive about tidiness, but I'm just honest about what I need.

And if it's easy and still human to support that need in my everyday life, then I'm going to do it. And then the third one ready for the next thing is kind of like the magic question.

What can I do now to make something easier later? Right. It's like the magic question is a blanket over my entire life.

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