#440 - How to Make the Rest of 2025 Easier

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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It’s around this point, towards the end of October, that we all start feeling the pressure. The rest of the year is coming like a snowball rolling down a hill. Today, we’re going to tend to that energy and create some ways to make the rest of 2025 easier and also more joyful, grounded, and rooted in whatever matters to you. Helpful Companion Links Order my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. The Lazy Genius Collective Facebook Group! Episode #339: How to Make the Rest of 2023 Easier Episode #392: How to Make the Rest of 2024 Easier Episode #330: How I Handle a Busy Season Episode #431: 5 Things to Avoid When Planning a Busy Season Episode #364: When Life Feels Like a Firehose Episode #385: How to Manage an Odd Stretch of Time Episode #395: How to Finish Last-Minute Lists Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism Episode #306: What We Need to Have More Fun Episode #347: How to Know What Brings You Joy One line a day journal One second a day app Learn about The Playbooks here. Find our digital products here (which are going into the sunset at the end of the year!) 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) Check out our network’s newest show, How We Made Your Mother 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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0:29.7	hi there you're listening to the lazy genius podcast i'm kendra adachi this podcast isn't about
0:36.9	hacking the system to find more time
0:39.0	or hacking your energy to get more done. Hustling to be the best or make the most of every
0:44.4	opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things differently. On this podcast,
0:50.0	we value contentment, compassion, and living in our season. We favor small steps over big systems.
0:56.9	Here we are lazy geniuses.
0:58.6	Being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.
1:03.1	And then I'm so glad you're here.
1:04.8	Today is episode 440, how to make the rest of 2025 easier.
1:09.8	So we've done this episode for the last three years,
1:12.1	and it's one of our highest downloaded episodes all year long. It is around this point
1:17.1	towards the end of October that we all start feeling the pressure. Like the rest of the year
1:21.9	is coming, like a snowball rolling down a hill. And we're all just like, oh my goodness, there are too many things.
1:29.2	How is this going to happen? Am I going to get crushed by all of it?
1:32.4	So today, we're going to tend to that energy and create some ways to make the rest of this year
1:38.7	of 2025 easier and also more joyful, grounded, and rooted in whatever matters to you.
1:46.1	But not in the way that we have done it the last couple of years.
1:48.9	More on that in just a minute.
1:50.3	After we make the rest of our year easier, we're going to have a little extra something
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