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 343. What's saving my life?

I love doing these episodes once a quarter

where I share the things that are saving my life right now.

Things that are bringing me joy, making life easier,

helping me feel calmer, the sky is the limit and I love them.

The phrase itself comes from author and priest Barbara Brown Taylor and it's such a simple

helpful way to frame what's happening in your life.

What's saving your life right now?

Feel free to share your list and tag me in it

if you share on social or just make it for yourself.

Seeing your own life through this lens is never a bad idea.

All right, I have 10 things today that

all run the gamut so let's jump in. All right the first thing saving my life is

that I'm pretty much done Christmas shopping. That is not a brag that does not always

happen but this year it mattered to me to have a quieter December to enjoy slowly

wrapping my gifts. Y'all know how much I love doing that now from episode 340

what saving my gift wrapping life.

And I don't want to be reactive to holiday sales

and then either like over-buy or under-buy because I didn't have a plan.

So this year I used the holiday to-do list approach that I shared last week in

episode 342, how to uncomplicate your holiday to-do list, and I made the category of choose holiday gifts happen

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