Hi 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's episode 344, Office Hours with Kendra. Office Hours

episodes happen once a quarter and in them I help you lazy genius your life. I take

questions from Instagram and answer them here on the podcast, helping you see how to use the

13 lazy genius principles, the five-step lazy genius method, any other lazy genius isms that might help you make your situation a little easier.

Because we have a lot of parents in the crowd, a lot of the questions are parenting related,

but as I usually do in office hours episodes, the first half will be non-kid questions,

and the second half will be kid.

That way, if you don't have kids,

you can kind of know when to tap out

and use your time on something else. One quick note before getting into

the questions, when I wrote the initial caption for the Instagram post asking for questions,

I reminded everyone to make the problems small, you know, that's one of our most important

approaches in lazy geniuses anything, right?

Start small in your steps, but also in what the problem actually is. Big problems require big

solutions but small problems they're a lot easier to solve. What's funny is

that I think some folks took my keep problem small encouragement as use fewer words.

So just remember that when you're trying to name your own problem to solve, the smallness isn't about how quickly

you can summarize it. You might need a whole mess of words to find your way to what's actually

frustrating you. I know that's true for me.

So this is my encouragement to you

as you work through your own questions

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