#263 - How to Still Have a Weekend
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Weekends are supposed to be restful and rejuvenating and fun, and yet our weekends are filled with more obligations and responsibilities and activities and things that are not restful or rejuvenating or fun! So how do we be grownups with responsibilities and still have a weekend? Let’s talk about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, you are listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Kendra Adachi, and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter |
| 0:08.3 | and lazy about the things that don't. |
| 0:10.6 | Today is episode 263. |
| 0:12.6 | How to still have a weekend. |
| 0:15.0 | Weekends are supposed to be restful and rejuvenating and fun, |
| 0:19.0 | and yet our weekends are filled with more obligations and responsibilities and activities |
| 0:24.0 | and things that are not rest or rejuvenating or fun. |
| 0:28.0 | So how do we be grown-ups with responsibilities and still have a weekend? |
| 0:33.0 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:35.0 | First, we need to make the problem smaller. |
| 0:37.0 | There is a very high chance that whatever is preventing you from feeling like you're having |
| 0:41.8 | a real weekend is different than mine or anyone else's. |
| 0:46.0 | It could be that you work full-time, so you grow your shop and you do regular maintenance |
| 0:52.0 | things on the weekends. |
| 0:53.0 | It could be that you have kids in sports or activities that happen during the weekend. |
| 0:57.0 | Maybe you work at a church, so weekends are never restful for you because you're literally |
| 1:02.0 | working. |
| 1:03.0 | Maybe you stay home with tiny humans every single day, so the weekend feels exactly like every |
| 1:09.0 | other day. |
| 1:10.0 | Maybe you're a single parent, and there's just not enough of you to go around to your kids |
| 1:13.0 | and your responsibilities, so you are the first thing to go. |
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