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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 407, How to Create a Flexible Weekly Plan.

This kind of episode is like Christmas for me. I love talking about planning, but with a

compassionate, flexible bent. We do not need

any more rigidity or weird shame spirals about failed plans. No, thank you. We're just living

our lives, putting things in place where we can, intending to do whatever we decide, but then

low-key expecting not all of those things are going to

happen. We need to be flexible with both our plans and ourselves. So today I'm going to give

you some ideas on how to approach both. First, let's quickly talk about why you plan at all.

Like what's the point? We might all have different points,

okay? But some likely reasons are, first, we don't want to miss stuff, you know, making a plan,

even a super flexible one, it helps us get a little closer to having more things in place than

not. Not every plan will catch everything.

But a plan helps us remember more than we might forget. Second, we might plan so that we're not

always operating out of a responsive or even emergency mode. Without a plan,

we really are just bending to whatever is happening in front of us, what is needed, what's

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