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 332, how to enjoy your evening hours. I'm really excited about this topic

because it is something every single person likely struggles with. Most of us have a typical

weekday and that weekday is probably fairly exhausting. Whether you work at an office or

from home or work as a stay-home parent, most of us live our days kind of the same. You know,

we're getting our stuff done. We're in some kind of rhythm or repetition dictated by someone else,

whether it comes in the form of our job at a desk or a job on the floor building the 72-second

tower of blocks with a tiny human. Once the evening comes though and meals have been eaten and

deaths have been left and routines have been completed, we feel a little frozen. It's almost like

evening hours or off hours of any kind suddenly belong to us. The evening especially it feels like

time that we can use however we want. It's not dictated by someone else and that freedom often

leaves us flailing. It is so precious and valuable and we want to make the most of it. So how do we

do that? Well, that is our episode today. If you were to list all the things that you could do during

your evening hours, it would probably be a very long list. Tidy the house, actually scrub something in

the house, prepare for tomorrow's schedule or tomorrow's meals or outfits or projects or whatever,

work out, relax and just be still, go to bed early, do something fun like watch a show or see a friend

or read a book, tend to a hobby, play a game or watch a movie with your family, do that skincare

routine you keep thinking about. And those are just the obvious ones. There are a lot of things you

would love to cram into your evening hours. And unfortunately, the decision fatigue of that time

a day, it just piles on to the existing exhaustion of the end of the day. Last Sunday I was texting

with my friend Amy about cross country carpool for our kids that week and after a very comical

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