Hey there! You're 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 293, an easily forgotten holiday reminder. We are entering the week before Christmas, and I hope you've enjoyed the episodes leading up to now to help you feel like you're ready to enjoy this week.

I don't want to take up too much of your enjoyment time with a podcast episode, but I do want to say a few words about something I think we so easily forget around this time of year. I want to talk about how we think about time.

All of us process time differently, and all of us are positioned to see time through one of three lenses, the past, the present, and the future. Shocker.

If you're an any-grandperson, you'll be a little bit familiar with this, but you do not have to know or even care about the any-grand for this to matter, and to be very relevant to you.

All of us see time from one of those stances, and those stances can impact us negatively around this time of year.

If you are a person who thinks about the past often, who finds yourself at a party, or driving down a street, or on your couch surrounded by Christmas presents, and then you're thinking back suddenly, if you're into the any-gram, past people, are fours, fives, and nines.

If you are a person who sees time through the lens of the future, you'll think about what could happen at a Christmas party, or on Christmas morning, gathering with your family that you have a difficult relationship with, and because you're analyzing all of those future scenarios, and see how they could be negative, maybe, you just don't go to the party.

Or you could be someone who loves the possibility of the future, and it's just excited for the next thing, and therefore it will be easy for you to miss what is good right now.

Again, if you're an any-grandperson, future people are threes, sevens, and eights.

Now you might think that the present oriented of us, like, haven't in the bag. You know, we're so good at seeing things right now, but honestly, so many of us who are focused on the present are looking at the present in a managerial way.

We're managing how to make right now better. We're managing the expectations of the people who are in front of us right now, or we're managing all the potential scenarios that could mess up right now.

There's still a franticness to present oriented people, because it's all about management. Those are ones, twos, and sixes. Okay, all that to say.

I want to leave you with a phrase that I hope you carry with you this week.

Good is here right now. Good is here right now. That is relevant for every single one of us, no matter how we experience time.

Now, when I say good is here right now, it gives us a kind lens to see where we are.

It helps us embrace the season we're in, even for a moment. It helps us be kind to ourselves as we might be struggling with twinges of regret or disappointment or overwhelm.

Good is here right now.

So let's think about that phrase as we examine a couple of like potential holiday scenarios this week where that phrasing could be helpful and grounding to you.

You might be in a really hard season like singularly hard.

If this is your first Christmas after losing someone because of death or divorce or a broken relationship or moving to a new place and being away from family and your best friend who you always did holiday stuff with, you will likely struggle with this next week or so.

And rightfully so it's hard when we miss something that's gone.

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