Hi there! You're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra and I'm here to help

you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 77, The Lazy Genius Rests. A couple of months ago I asked on Instagram

what you'd like me to talk about during our times together here and when someone said

rest, the likes on that comment started piling up really fast. I think we're also tired.

We want a better way of resting, which feels calmer and intuitive in a lot of ways.

Can we get better at resting? Can we set better goals and push towards resting better

that if you take away the paradox there, yeah I think we can. I think we can rest better.

And in this episode we're going to talk about how we need to look at rest differently and then

figure out practical ways to actually do it in our regular life. So first thing, when you imagine

rest, what is it that you see? Do you see an empty room that doesn't belong to you?

Like an exotic hotel room. Do you see like a plush white bed or curtains blowing in the breeze?

Maybe you see the ocean or the mountains. You see a weekend alone in a cabin in the woods

or a girls' trip eating and shopping and sleeping in. There's so many beautiful possibilities.

My personal vision of rest or one of them is being in my house by myself for like at least 48 hours.

Somebody take away all my sweet people and then let me enjoy my own space without responsibility.

That are going to the beach also without responsibility. It's pretty common for us to imagine

rest on a grand scale. If we could just get away for a while, we would be a different person.

I say that too. It feels like that's the magic formula. The ability to get away and recharge alone

for longer than an hour. Please, and thank you. But when we do that, if we get to do that at all,

it often falls a little flat. And here's why I think that is, we don't know how to rest.

Even when we're given that rare opportunity to do it, we do it poorly because we don't have any

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