Hi everybody! Merry Christmas! This is 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 88. Refocus your Christmas brain. Let's make this super quick because we have

presents to wrap and grandma's to visit. I want to quickly and lovingly remind you that you are

valuable if these next few days are perfect and also if they are crap. If you buy the perfect gift

or you can't seem to make anybody happy with what you buy, you matter. If your Christmas breakfast

makes everyone like moan and happiness or if you pull out hockey pucks and minerals from the oven,

you matter. If you have amazing conversations with your family or you end up yelling at your kids

to be more grateful, you'll take away all the presents, you matter. We're all in process

of becoming deeper and truer and who we already are. So remember that your value isn't based on

successful meals or traditions or kids who are perfectly thankful and content with what they have.

And yet we also can all become that deeper, truer version of ourselves by shifting our perspective

a little bit. So this week recognize that how you respond, it doesn't necessarily make you a good

or bad person, but it can encourage you in a purposeful direction of becoming a more contented you.

So this week as the season continues and actual Christmas day approach is very soon, I just hope

that you slow down, that you seek connection rather than protection, that you give yourself space

when you fill the volcano, signaling an eruption and that you have grace for yourself when that

emotional lava it just spews everywhere all over everybody. None of your decisions are going to make

or break anything necessarily, but each one can be a tiny building block on the other

in you becoming a deeper, true version of who you are and be more contented with who that is.

So just relax, just relax, seek to connect, not to protect. And also, just remember that the more

that we try and capture, manufacture and reproduce and quantify our connections and our memories,

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