Hello 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 259. Five steps to lazy genius anything. Today we are just about one week out from the release of my second book, The Lazy Genius Kitchen. And in that book, I share five steps to lazy genius anything in your kitchen.

But those five steps can work for anything in your life. This book has been hard to explain, if I'm honest. Mostly because there's nothing like it I've ever found on cookbook shelves at the bookstore.

We need a more comprehensive way to solve our kitchen problems. And we can't always depend on other people's ideas. Just like with the lazy genius way, we all have different lives with different priorities.

And it does not make sense for me to tell you what to do because we're all going to do different things because we need different things.

But what I do want to do is teach you how you can use a specific set of tools or principles to create solutions for your personal challenges.

The lazy genius kitchen takes that idea and amplifies it by a hundred and puts it square in the middle of our most used and often most frustrating room, the kitchen.

Our kitchens need very specific mindsets and tools and strategies to work for us simply because there are so many roles our kitchens fill.

Food is constantly needed. Dishes are constantly piling up. Plans are constantly being made and then not followed through on. Expectations are constantly getting bigger and more cumbersome.

Time and margin feel like they're constantly shrinking. We're dealing with different budgets and kitchen layouts and dietary restrictions and schedules and family size and season of life and cooking skills and a million other variables for me to tell you how to create a specific kitchen.

How to organize your cabinets, what to shop for, how to plan, what your table should look like doing that would just be unkind.

We live different lives. There is no one way to live in and use a kitchen. There simply isn't.

But we all do in some way need strategies to make it feel a stressful and that's why I wrote the lazy genius kitchen. So in today's episode, I'm going to tell you what's in part of the book.

Part one of the book has the five steps that can help you lazy genius any part of your kitchen and even any part of your life. I make this joke in the book, but please use these steps in all necessary areas of your life so that I do not have to write the lazy genius bathroom.

Okay, so let's just jump into the five steps and again, these are explained in detail with extra levels of consideration and charts and all kinds of things in part one of the lazy genius kitchen book. So this is just a broad overview. Still, it's a very helpful broad overview.

Okay, the five steps are prioritize, essentialize, organize, personalize, and systemize. Yes, I made them all eyes on purpose. You are welcome.

First step prioritize first, you have to name what matters most. This is the foundation for everything. You have to name what matters to you about a particular thing. Make the problem as small as possible and name what's most important about that thing.

The reason we often feel overwhelmed by our lives and especially by our kitchens is that we're trying to make everything matter. We are seeking solutions for meals that are quick, family friendly, healthy, tasty, not expensive, and a few other qualifications.

And we think we're the problem because we can't find those meals. Those meals aren't real guys. It is almost impossible to find a variety of recipes, like a broad list of those that cover every base that could matter without you feeling like you're losing your mind, which is why you have to pick one one thing that steers your ship.

It's not that all the other priorities don't matter, but only one can matter most.

If you're listening to this on the day it releases Monday, April 25th. Tomorrow is the third episode of the lazy genius kitchen video series.

And it is with our beloved Aaron Moon. I adore this episode and highly encourage you to watch it because we figured out Aaron's priorities in real time about the meals she makes for her family.

...