Hey there, you're listening to The Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi. This podcast is not about hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done. Hustling to be the best or to make the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things differently. On this show, we value contentment,

compassion, and living in our season. We favor small steps over big systems. Here we are lazy

geniuses, being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't,

and I am so glad you're here. Today is episode 474, kindly living with your kids all summer

long. To those of you without kids, thank you for being here, and I'm sorry this episode is not

as relevant to you this week. However, I do think that if you live with anyone, there are things in

this episode that could help you. Maybe not the part about noise,

unless your partner is just like super loud during the summer. But this is a relational episode.

This is an episode to help us be kind people to our people, particularly in the summer season

when kids are usually home. Like we all want to be kind. We want to be

thoughtful about how we treat each other. And in the pressure cooker of a weird summer,

kindness and thoughtfulness might get like a little compromised. So today I'm going to share

seven typical obstacles to being home with people for a long stretch of time, things like

mess, interruption, bad

attitudes, and how to approach them from a kind, lazy genius perspective. After that, we'll have a

little extra something where I share an update on my word of the year. I don't know if any of you

remember what it is, nor should you, but I'll tell you what, that word is not in a thriving state right now. So I will share how

things are going with that word. After that update, we'll celebrate the lazy genius of the week

with a great summer snack hack. And we'll finish with a mini pep talk for when what you try

doesn't work. Sometimes the dependable things that help us get out of a funk or help

settle life a little bit. They don't, they don't always work the way we expect them to. So I have

some words to help anyone who is struggling with that. We're going to mostly get into the

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