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 364 when life feels like a fire hose.

We had a completely different episode plan for today,

but my life turned into a fire hose life this week.

My youngest got hit with pink eye and had to miss a couple days of school.

Then shortly after, kind of overlapping actually, my oldest got sick with both Strep and COVID.

He's in the house right now. He will be for a few days still, which means he has to miss his final middle school band concert.

Some of you saw the video of him playing in his Allstate band performance last week I posted on

Instagram that's probably where he got strep in COVID but you know that music is

this kid's life and it's such a bummer for him He's got to miss his last middle school concert.

With all that upheaval and tending from me,

this week has been the type where I do not thrive.

Even though I talk a lot about pivoting around plans and being kind and

flexible and compassionate, I mean I love a good plan. I wrote a book called The Plan

out October 8th. Creating order around chaos and knowing what's coming, it's my

literal favorite thing. But one of the things that is almost more important than the plan itself

is learning and practicing what to do when it doesn't work out.

After many years of failed plans, I have seen the value of learning to pivot over learning to plan. Plans are always going to fall apart. So our ability to

navigate that is crucial. That's why one of my favorite episodes that we've done

of the podcast is episode 310.10, how to pivot around

any obstacle.

It's so good for us to learn this.

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