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

335, seven ways to manage daily chaos. Last week's episode was about how to create a relaxing

home routine and we talked about the cycles of our homes. Our homes typically contain projects

and cycles. Projects are one-off things with an end and cycles are, you guessed it, cyclical,

things like laundry, food and cleaning, repeat again and again and again. They never end.

Now that can be frustrating but it can also be liberating if you recognize that your home will

always be in flux. You will always be in different parts of different cycles and embracing that

releases you from the pressure to always have everything done at once. If you haven't listened

the last week's episode, I would definitely encourage you to do that. Now this episode is fine

to listen to on its own but if you want a more comprehensive look at the rhythms, routines

and cycles of your home and how you can manage the daily chaos once you get that, you know,

in perspective, definitely check out episode 334. Now today we are going to get fairly practical.

I'm going to share seven ways to manage daily chaos and while you could totally apply one of these

on its own, these seven things are super helpful in order as a series of steps. Okay.

Now before I share the steps, let's imagine the daily chaos that is probably not hard to do.

It comes in many forms and there's also no need to compare yours to mine or someone else's.

In fact, chaos is often a feeling, a perspective. It's not always the state of things.

One person sees chaos where another sees something perfectly normal. So a lot of it is in the

eye of the beholder. That said, you probably can easily access an idea of what your personal

daily chaos feels like. Now I do think it is important to distinguish between daily chaos,

that's just a regular life and then daily chaos that's extra. Some things are simply going to

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