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 423,

How to Get Unstuck When Your Space is a Mess. People create a mess, and chances are you have more people

in your home right now than usual. Obviously,

that's not true for everyone. But I'm talking to you at the end of June. June is full of hot weather,

bored children, abandoned projects, and therefore almost certainly a mess. Today, let's take a few

minutes to pep talk our way into getting unstuck when your space is a mess.

Most of the time, mess is not just stuff that needs to be put away.

I mean, practically it is.

But there are so many things that have us feeling stuck with that reality.

It's not really the mess.

It's the stuckness.

So how do we get unstuck?

I have a series of questions. I want you to ask yourself as you look at your mess. Well, it might not be actually messy, but it's possibly messy.

But as you look around at your possibly messy home, as you listen to me on a walk, not wanting to go home to the mess or as you're listening on

your lunch break at work knowing that a mess will await you when you return, maybe this

episode will help you when you feel overwhelmed, when you feel stuck in your space being messy.

I want you to try and identify what's really going on.

Because again, it's likely not really just the mess.

Maybe.

Maybe it is, and we'll get to that, but don't start angrily cleaning or chucking everything in an empty laundry basket quite yet.

Start with this series of questions instead.

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