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 270, a 2022 mid-summer pep talk. Now before I

jump in I just want to say real quick I'm working on this episode, writing it

while I am sitting at my local library and there is a guy reading a book

across for me and he keeps smiling and laughing at what he's reading and y'all I'm

not sure there's much I love more than seeing someone enjoy their reading. It's

just bringing me a lot of joy right now as I work on this episode and I wanted to

tell you about it. Okay so that's it. Rabbit trail over on that. I want us to do a

quick little mid-summer pep talk for the year of 2022 that just keeps out doing

its big brothers 2020 and 2021. It's all you what? So personally I have been

feeling it lately. I have been feeling a little bit of everything almost all the

time and some days that little bit grows into a lot. I don't know what will

bother me or what will make me happy. I don't know what I'll notice or care

about or have the motivation to do. I don't know how my kids will wake up or what

my husband might need. I don't know how I will respond when I discover that half

of the container of strawberries that we just bought is moldy. I don't know who

will send me a confrontational DM that sucks all my energy dry. What will happen

in the world or how or when I will learn of that news. I don't know who's gonna

call who's gonna need me. If the sniffles that we're feeling are actually

COVID. If my hormones are gonna put me on a different path than I expected on a

specific day. I don't know if the electricity will go out because of one

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