Keeping Up With Chores When Life Is Extra Busy

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Education, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Regular life doesn’t stop just because it’s December. When life is busy, the ordinary things tend to get the shaft because we’re trying to tend to all the unusual, urgent things instead. But those ordinary tasks are in many ways the backbone of staying a little calmer in a busy season. Let’s talk about what that looks like and what not to do with your chores and routines in a busy season. Helpful Companion Links Order my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy. Find our digital products here (which are going into the sunset at the end of the year!) Episode #439: Chores I Do Every Day, Part 2 Sign up for our every-other-week podcast recap email called Latest Lazy Listens. Sign up for my once-a-month newsletter, The Latest Lazy Letter or if you’re just looking for book reviews, sign up to receive The Book List. Grab a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Kitchen or The Lazy Genius Way! (Affiliate links) Download a transcript of this episode. Want to share your Lazy Genius of the Week idea with us? Use this form to tell us about it. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi. This podcast is not about
0:06.7	hacking the system to find more time or hacking your energy to get more done. Hustling to be the best
0:12.7	or to make the most out of every opportunity is exhausting and unsustainable. So here we do things
0:19.9	differently. On this podcast, we value contentment,
0:23.5	compassion, and living in our season. We favor small steps over big systems. Here we are lazy
0:30.2	geniuses, being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.
0:35.4	And I'm so glad you're here. Today is episode 446,
0:39.7	keeping up with chores when life is extra busy. I said this in last week's episode, but regular
0:45.3	life doesn't stop just because it's December. When life is busy, the ordinary things
0:51.5	tend to get the shaft because we're trying to tend to all the unusual,
0:54.5	urgent things instead.
0:56.7	But those ordinary tasks are in many ways the backbone of staying like a little calmer in a busy
1:04.1	season.
1:05.3	Imagine if you are busy, but you're prioritizing the rhythms of food, laundry, and home, and you're feeling fairly anchored
1:13.4	in those places. It gives the unusual tasks and the busyness a softer place to land.
1:20.0	So today, let's talk about what that looks like and what not to do with your chores and routines
1:24.9	in a busy season. For a little extra something today, I'm going to
1:28.2	share a couple of things about our Thanksgiving trip to New York. My oldest kid, Sam, got to be a
1:32.4	member of the great American marching band this year, which marches in the Thanksgiving Day parade.
1:36.5	I am recording this episode before we actually go to New York. We leave in a couple days. So I won't
1:40.8	have real stories, but I will share with you some of our travel planning
1:45.2	strategies. And if you'd like to hear all about the trip, I will be sharing that in the next
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