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 324.

How to make the rest of the summer easier? This episode releases on July 24th, 2023, and for some of

you, summer is legit almost over, like some schools start in just a couple of weeks. Others of you

do not start until after Labor Day. It is a wide range, and some of you your summer has nothing to do

school at all. But because summer is likely more than halfway over for most of us, it is likely

you have that anticipatory glimmer, maybe even stress, of what is coming next. You are mentally

already starting to wind down this season and get ready for the next one. You might also realize

that it's almost the end of July and you're feeling the push of things that you have not yet

done this summer. You start panicking about if you've had the amount of fun you wanted to,

or if you did the project you say that you would tackle, or if your kids have had a good time,

the middle of seasons can be tricky and that you're in multiple places at once. So let's talk

about how to take that energy and massage it out a bit, making the rest of the summer easier.

And we're going to do that with a mid-season check-in. Grab a piece of paper or a notebook or a

Google doc or whatever and just answer these questions with me. First, what are you thinking about?

What are you preoccupied with? What's floating around in your head? This is definitely a lot like a

brain dump, I suppose, but I want you to name all the things you're thinking about. Are you thinking

about what you already did? Or maybe what you did in summer's past that haven't happened yet? Are you

preoccupied with the upcoming fall and the tasks involved? Are you wishing you had done more this

summer? And you're worried you're going to run out of time? Is everyone sunburned and feral and

you can't remember the last time you used your oven? Like, name where you are. Now what you're

thinking about right now. Second, what's happening? What's coming up on the calendar? What is going on

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