#464 - How to Create Healthy Phone Habits

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Education, Arts

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today, we’re going to talk about how to create healthy phone habits. Healthy habits are personal. What’s healthy or unhealthy for me might not be for you, so this isn’t a judgmental episode. Instead, we’re going to examine what healthy means, what parts of our phone experience need some attention, and figure out how to create some better practices that align with what matters. Helpful Companion Links Order my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. My profile on Spotify I mentioned looking for a folder on my profile of podcast playlists, but after recording, I realized you can’t see it publicly. Here are those podcast playlists: Planning, Margin, Work, Change, Chores, Cooking, Kids, Office Hours, Summer Sanity, Holiday Sanity, Starter Pack, and Guests Gonna Try to Run playlist Calling for Spring playlist Road Ready app New York Times Cooking and New York Times Games Merlin Bird ID app 5 Calls app Kindle app Libby app Chirp app Audible app Book of the Month app Aardvark Book Club app Book Buddy app Trello app 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 Kitchenor 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 or record your idea and share your voice on the show. 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 show is not about
0:05.8	hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done. Hustling to be the best or to make
0:12.9	the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things differently.
0:19.9	On this show, we value contentment,
0:22.7	compassion, and living in our season. We favor small steps over big systems. Here we are lazy
0:29.0	geniuses, being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.
0:33.9	And I am so glad that you are here. Today is episode 464, How to Create Healthier Phone
0:40.2	Habits. I remember the days when we did not all have smartphones. In fact, my husband held out for
0:47.0	years. He did not have a cell phone of any kind until like 15 years ago. And it was because his
0:53.7	parents were like, sir, you have children.
0:55.6	You need to be reachable. It's hilarious. So today's episode, it is exactly what the title says.
1:00.6	We're going to talk about how to create healthier phone habits. Healthy habits are personal.
1:05.4	What's healthy or unhealthy for me might not be for you. So this is not a judgmental episode. Instead, we're going to
1:12.9	examine what healthy means for you, what parts of the phone experience needs some attention,
1:20.5	and figure out how to create some better practices that align with what matters to you.
1:25.8	I think by the end of the episode, you're going to feel excited about
1:29.4	how to start small with making your phone part of your life and have tools that are aligned
1:36.1	with how you want your phone to be part of your life, whatever that looks like. After that,
1:40.8	we're going to have a little extra something in the form of my most used phone apps.
1:46.2	I mean, it is an episode about healthy phone habits.
1:49.0	This changes, my favorite apps, it changes depending on like seasons of life and stuff, right?
1:53.5	But I will share my go-to favorite apps and even a little bit about how they're organized.
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