#435 - Your Five-Step Guide to a Joyful Busy Season

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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October through December sometimes feels like a really fun roller coaster but you don’t always feel like you have time to buckle your seatbelt. This episode is going to help you not just survive a busy season but really enjoy it. Helpful Companion Links Order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. Our digital products are going into retirement. Grab them now (at a discount!) before they disappear at the end of the year. I'll be talking with Jen Hatmaker about her new book, Awake, at Festival of Books and Authors in Winston-Salem on Saturday, September 27th. There are tons of sessions to see and authors to meet, and the event is free to the public. Episode #121: How to Build a Fall Dinner Queue Episode #434: 10 Ways I Feel Like Myself Counterweights: An Essential Practice for Holding Hope in a Heavy World by Shannan Martin Sign up for the Latest Lazy Listens email. Grab a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Kitchen or The Lazy Genius Way! (Affiliate links) Download a transcript of this episode. Want to share your Lazy Genius of the Week idea with us? Use this form to tell us about it. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there. You're listening to the lazy genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi. This podcast isn't about
0:07.4	hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done. Hustling to be the best
0:13.9	or to make the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things
0:20.7	differently.
0:21.7	On this podcast, we value contentment, compassion, and living in our season.
0:26.3	We favor small steps over big systems.
0:29.4	Here we are lazy geniuses, being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.
0:35.8	And I'm so glad you're here.
0:39.5	Today is episode 435,
0:46.8	your five-step guide to a joyful, busy season. Today is September 15th, the middle of the final month before everything seems to kind of take off, you know, October through December,
0:52.3	sometimes feels like a really fun roller coaster,
0:54.3	but you don't always feel like you have time to buckle your seatbelt. This episode is going to help
0:59.4	you not just survive a busy season, but really enjoy it. And frankly, you can use these five
1:05.2	steps anytime you're entering your own busy season, not just this fall holiday season that we
1:10.4	are about to enter.
1:12.1	And if you're like Kendra, it is the middle of September. It's still 82 degrees outside.
1:16.1	Like, what are you talking about? If you're feeling that way, I get it. You don't actually have
1:19.6	to do this right now, if you would rather not. But if you tend to feel spread a little too thin
1:26.3	or more stressed than you would prefer during the last three
1:30.9	months of the year. Laying the tiniest bit of groundwork now will really help your upcoming
1:36.5	busyness feel more alive rather than so draining. I'll share plenty of examples with each of the
1:43.1	steps. So hopefully you'll be able to see
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