#62: The Lazy Genius Summer Strategy: Mindset
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Even now in May, summer already feels overwhelming. We want to get a lot done, rest, have time alone and away from our kids, and figure out the perfect balance between structure and freedom. While that balance might not actually exist, a new mindset can certainly help you try.
In this, the first episode in a four-part series, we're going to develop a strategy for the summer, and as always around here, we begin with a little reframing. Listen in.
Stuff Mentioned In This Episode:
- Emily P. Freeman, author of four books, including Simply Tuesday that is a lovely reminder of the beauty of smallness
- John Freeman, husband to Emily and non-profit director who ran that parenting workshop I mentioned
- the episode about opening and closing ceremonies around holiday time... the concepts work for summer, too
- follow me on Instagram @thelazygenius to meet me live every Thursday around 12:15pm EST
- download a transcript of the episode if you prefer reading to listening
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is the Lazy Genius podcast and Kendra and I'm here to help you be |
| 0:06.0 | a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. |
| 0:10.2 | It's the first Monday in May and we can already feel the heat of the summer, at least the |
| 0:15.6 | heat from like the pressure of summer schedules and to-do lists and projects and fear of our |
| 0:22.9 | children like literally coming to blows day after day. |
| 0:25.8 | So for the entire month of May we're going to Lazy Genius or Summer. |
| 0:29.4 | The hope is that by the end of this series you will have a grounding perspective that |
| 0:33.4 | carries through the entire summer a few tangible tips that save you time and energy and some |
| 0:39.2 | ideas on how to balance, structure and freedom during the summer months. |
| 0:43.2 | Now let me say that this series is not just for moms of little kids or even moms in general. |
| 0:47.6 | I am a mom of little kids. |
| 0:49.0 | I have two boys in elementary school who are not usually at home during the day and then |
| 0:54.0 | a two year old daughter who is home with me all the time. |
| 0:57.3 | So a lot of my perspective is rooted in my own experience as a mom of younger kids, |
| 1:01.3 | but this series will offer help for folks in lots of different situations. |
| 1:05.6 | So not every word will be for everyone, but if you're a regular listener of the podcast |
| 1:11.3 | and already resonate with a lot of Lazy Genius ideas you'll find something in these episodes |
| 1:16.9 | to make your summer better. |
| 1:19.9 | A lot of it is framed within having kids, but a lot of it also works for everybody. |
| 1:25.5 | But that said in this first episode we're going to talk about perspective. |
| 1:28.9 | We're going to create a mindset as we love to do around here, but first we need to acknowledge |
| 1:34.7 | the mindset that we are currently working with. |
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