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 338. Lazy Genius Office Hours. We do these episodes about once a quarter,

where I answer your questions in more detail than I'm able to do in like an Instagram,

ask me anything, and definitely more public than I might be able to in a DM.

The idea here is to practice lazy geniusing situations together,

so that you can feel more equipped to do it on your own.

In our last Office Hours episode, I split the questions into kid-related and not kid-related

so that those of you without kids could listen to the first half and then bounce.

This episode actually has no specific kid-related questions, so everything is potentially for everybody.

So let's jump in. First step is a question from Hannah D. Hensley.

Hannah says, how do lazy genius, when life just feels like one season of survival mode after another?

I know therapy, haha, but little's military grad school, homeschooling, it's all just a lot.

I want to enjoy my life and not constantly feel like I'm barely treading water.

This is a very relatable question from Hannah. It also borders on being too big to answer,

but that's a disclaimer I often give at the start of these Office Hours episodes.

Big questions are really hard to answer. The bigger the problem, the more complex the solution.

And the more complex the solution, the harder it is to actually make it happen.

So when you're lazy geniusing your own challenges, always, always, always try and make your problem as small as possible.

Now that said, this question from Hannah does feel like something that a lot of us relate to.

A lazy genius principle is to live in your season.

And that's a beautiful thing to pursue. But what if you have season after season?

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