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 331, what's saving my life? Y'all love these episodes and I'm so glad

they consistently get high marks and listener surveys and high downloads so we will keep

on doing them. This phrase, what's saving my life was first coined by Barbara Brown

Taylor, an author that I love, who offers a simple way to look at our lives and notice

what is making it worth living. Now that might sound dramatic, but I don't need to tell

you that life is full and sometimes overwhelming and we need things that offer sparkle and light.

Every quarter I share my list and encourage you to make your own, so let's get started.

The first thing that's saving my life right now is self-compassion. We'll just get right

into it. If you got the latest lazy letter last week, you already know how much I hate

August, like a lot. I have never ranked the months, which is shocking honestly, but if

I were to rank them, August would be last. I want to love it. I really do, but every

single year, it makes me a crazy person. Okay, I have to rate the months now. I just have

to do it. Okay, so I figured it out. The order is December is number one, then October,

November, January, April, September, June, February, March, May, July, August. I'm sorry, I

had to. It doesn't make any sense. I just had to do it for myself. Okay. Now, since I have

just, I have just left my two least favorite months of the year, July and August, going into

my favorite season, right? But it's also like the busiest time of year with a lot of transitions.

It makes sense that I would be a little off-center. I have had enormous big system energy the

last few weeks, and I feel like my caffeinated scroll brain just has like an IV drip of

double espresso. I am a vibe right now. And when I'm this kind of vibe, I can get really

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