#436 - How to Pivot Gracefully: A Guide for the Sick, Tired, and Overwhelmed

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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What do we do when we’re hit with something out of our control within our own bodies, in the bodies of people we love and live with, or from the world itself? What do we do when we are forced to pivot away from what we planned because our energy or our attention can’t function the way they were when we made that plan? That’s what I want to consider today. Spoiler: I don’t have an answer, not a concrete, formulaic one anyway. But I do have some thoughts about when we have to gracefully pivot. 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 from The Lazy Genius Digital Store. Grab them now (at a discount!) before the end of the year. Episode #101: The Lazy Genius Deals with Sickness Aundi Kolber (she was on the show a few years ago — listen to Episode #230: How to Feel Like a Person) Episode #310: How to Pivot Around Any Obstacle Sign up for our every-other-week podcast recap email called Latest Lazy Listens. Sign up for my once-a-month newsletter, The Latest Lazy Letter. 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	Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services?
0:04.8	So we started the business two years ago.
0:07.2	We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.
0:12.5	But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy.
0:18.0	Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash
0:23.6	HelloVet.
0:26.6	Hey there, you're listening to the lazy genius podcast.
0:30.2	I'm Kendra Adachi.
0:31.8	This podcast isn't about hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done,
0:38.7	hustling to be the best or to make the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things
0:46.2	differently. On this podcast, we value contentment, compassion, and living in our season. We favor
0:52.4	small steps over big systems. Here we are lazy geniuses,
0:56.9	being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. And I'm so glad
1:02.0	you're here. Today is episode 436, How to Pivot Gracefully, a Guide for the Sick, Tired, and Overwhelmed.
1:15.8	Up until a few hours before recording, this was going to be an episode on dealing with sickness like all by itself.
1:18.3	You know, we're entering the cold and flu season.
1:25.5	So the timing made sense to get us thinking and prepared, not so much on like a medical level, but on an emotional one.
1:29.0	And then I was forced into my own graceful pivot with a migraine that impacted the entire week because of what work it displaced. And I spent
1:35.9	several days like readjusting tasks and priorities and emotions and rest because of this
1:41.1	one migraine. And then a couple of days later, I was knocked off my own
1:46.9	tracks by some items in the news that made me feel all kinds of things from my kids who had so
1:53.4	many big questions about what is happening in our country and from an algorithm that started
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