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 345. How to approach holiday downtime. This

episode is releasing on Monday, December 18th and for some of you listening

you're close to entering a longer break from your regular life, you know?

The winter holidays are upon us.

Christmas is one week away, New Year's is two weeks away.

And there's just like a lot of activity,

but also a lot of downtime sometimes more than we realize so today we're going to talk about how to approach it

Now before we jump in I do want to acknowledge those of you who have jobs or responsibilities that do not offer the same kind of holiday

down time that I'm talking about. You might get one or two days off over the next

couple of weeks and that's it. All of these people, including me right now,

talking about their long holiday breaks and that week between

Christmas and New Year is when nothing is happening, it might make you feel a little down.

You might feel frustrated at the assumption that everyone has that time off or maybe you have work off but not life off you know

You might have some kind of responsibility or obligation that does not leave you much space for this holiday downtime problem.

And I just want to say that I see you in that.

I want to acknowledge how challenging this time of year is for you for reasons that people don't often

speak about. So maybe this episode is not for you and you can skip to the next thing.

But I do want to say that I see those of you who are still working for the rest of the month.

Now for those of you who are not working as much and you have some time off or you have kids

home for the next couple of weeks you know I want to talk to you today.

While I don't know what your holiday calendar looks like,

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