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 291, your path to an easier December. Today is December 5th and for many

of you listening, there are many, many, many, many things in front of you. Now if you don't

celebrate Christmas, if you live in the Southern Hemisphere where it's not winter right now

or any number of other differences, the hub of this month might not be quite the same,

but percentage wise, I think a lot of you are definitely feeling the anticipatory energy

of the next few weeks. So today, I want us to walk through the month of December and the potential

challenges you'll run into and give you some resources for those things. I'm almost envisioning

a candyland board, like you're on this winding path to that big red guy at the end who

kind of looks like Santa and you have lots of fun things along the way, but sometimes there's

like a weird slide that makes you skip some stuff and maybe something happens in your life that

makes you have to go all the way back because you forgot to get gifts in time and all the things.

So in the spirit of candyland, we're going to sort of go in chronological order and look at what

you might be facing in kind of a particular way. All right, so another bit of benefit to this exercise

and the visual exercise of the game board is helping you think through your challenges in the

right order. Now, the order that I present today, it might not be the order that you personally have,

and that's totally fine, but the point is that you don't try to solve all your problems all at once.

You can go in order, not everything has to be tended to today. So this chronology will hopefully

also give you permission to embrace whatever chronology you need and tend to whatever needs

tending to now, now, right? It's kind of like the holiday version of our to-do list categorization,

now, soon later, and never mind, when things are undone and not categorized or scheduled or

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