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 is episode 400. How to feel satisfied with your celebrations. I'm unusually excited about this topic today because I think we all need a good perspective shift in this area.

Celebrations are strangely complicated. Sometimes we shy away from them, especially if we're

celebrating something about ourselves. Other times we have them, but we feel pressure to celebrate

a certain way, to make everything as sparkly and memorable as possible. And no matter what you've

celebrated or not celebrated, at some point in your life, I guarantee you've been disappointed.

I'm not promising that you'll never feel disappointed with your celebrations again, but I do think

there's a lot of room to feel greater satisfaction when we mark our moments. Also, side note, this is our 400th

episode, but not technically because of like all the bonus episodes over the last seven or eight

years, but still it's kind of fun to talk about celebrating on the 400th episode. Okay, I also

turned 43 at the end of December. So that plus the Christmas

holidays, it has celebrating like heavily on my mind. The title of this episode had to feel

satisfied with your celebrations. It was really well thought out. When Leah, our team's director

of content, when she and I were talking about this episode,

the word satisfied, it kept coming up. Satisfied means contented or pleased. And that seems like a

lovely way to feel about something. Satisfaction somehow feels more accessible than a lot of the

other words that we might associate with celebrations.

You know, like, best ever, or the pressure of like, let's make a memory.

It all tends to feel heavy with pressure and apparently exclamation points.

And therefore, with expectations.

Satisfaction, it feels more soulful, right?

We're happy with enough. We're happy here. Now, I don't mean you need to be

like an e-ore or some kind of martyr about your celebrations, like poo-pooing big parties and best times

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