Hey 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 316, How to Not Bummer Your Summer.

All credit to Sarah A. McQueen, a lazy genius who follows me on Instagram and who in an

Instagram live.

When I asked for title ideas for this episode, immediately dropped the mic with how to

not bummer your summer and then the live was over.

Like we were all like, there it is, we're done.

So thank you Sarah for this amazing title.

Also props to Megan McDonald, the author of the Judy Moody series who has a book called

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer.

Nobody wants a bummer summer.

Judy Moody doesn't neither do it.

But because of our wonky expectations about this supposedly magical season, we bummer

our own summers, maybe even more than we realize.

So in today's episode, let's figure out how to not bummer our summer.

If we were to boil it down, I think the main thing that will bummer your summer is a pattern

of adverse reactions to unmet expectations.

Let me say that again, a pattern of adverse reactions to unmet expectations because there

will be unmet expectations.

Without question, yours, a partner, your kids for sure, if you have them, we all have unmet

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