I'm your host Annie F. Downs. I'm really happy to be here with you today. What a great year of shows we've already had. Charles Martin was amazing. If you haven't gotten his new book, they turned the world upside down. You got to go get it and go listen to that episode.

And we've got a great show and store for you today. And just a reminder, you can still pre-order my new book. That sounds fun. All of the details are available for you at that sounds fun book.com. So check that out. It actually releases in a month on February 2nd.

Today on the show is my good friend, Kendra Adachi. You may know her as the lazy genius. I adore this woman. You guys get ready for this conversation. Her book that came out last summer is called the lazy genius way. And we wanted to save her for January. And kind of talk through how do we lazy genius our way into 2021. And as you can imagine, this conversation goes a lot of places I would have never planned. Kendra is amazing and such a gift. And I think you're going to love this episode.

So here's my conversation with our friend, the lazy genius Kendra Adachi.

Kendra Adachi, welcome to the that sounds fun podcast. I am so happy to be here. Any? Oh, man, forgive us friends, because Kendra and I've already talked for 50 minutes.

We just been living our best life going through some apologies going through some make it things right. No, just kidding. Thank you for making time for this. Welcome to 2021.

Leaving 2020 entering 2021. What are your thinking? What is happening in your brain?

That rear view mirror. I do think that thinking about what's coming in this year feels a little bit like playing with monopoly money. It's all pretend. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

But it also, I don't know, it's just I have so much hope. I know that there's been a lot of language around nothing's really going to change when it's 2021. Like the things are still sort of the same.

But I have to believe and feel it in my bones a little bit already that it's like just that mental shift of it being 2021. We did it. We did it. We made it.

It went a little bit faster than we thought it would. Didn't it?

I think the last three months did sort of like, I don't know if it's because we're too tired. Right.

I'm just too tired. But no, I'm so happy to leave 2020 behind. And I also want to remember the good things from it. And it not just be a year I want to forget because there's so many beautiful things that came from it too.

But I am really glad to not have to say 2020 anymore. That's a really beautiful thought though. The like, did we at some point this week or the end of last week.

And we sit down and go like, okay, what was the good of 2020 now that I'm in 2021? What was the good of 2020?

Yeah. Well, this is why it's nice for people like us to have podcasts and content that we have to create as a job.

I did that on my own podcast. It was the last episode of 2020 was.

Oh, good discoveries of 2020.

Because I'm not very good. I'm not very good at reflecting. Like that's why we have the next right thing with Emily.

That's why we have Emily that teachers had a reflect and stuff. And so I kind of took the time to think through what my favorite discoveries are.

And it was really life giving to go look at all these beautiful things that I found that I got to enjoy and learn and all that.

And it wasn't just a dumpster fire as they said so many times. So, but it is nice to just sort of do it's a it's a big old deep breath.

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