You're Not Lazy, You're Overwhelmed (feat. Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius)

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Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In case you didn't know, we're still making episodes that are available exclusively on Nora's Substack! We wanted to give all of our listeners a little preview of our most recent episode! Consider joining Nora's Substack to listen to the rest of the episode, get additional bonus episodes, and ad-free episodes! _ Most people I know are feeling overwhelmed, to put it lightly. Between the stuff you have to do (work, paying your bills, getting your kid new shoes, or vacuuming up the dog hair before you host book club) and the things you wantto do and know will make you feel better (going to the gym, drinking water, REST, spending time with friends, starting one of the million hobbies you bought supplies for and shoved into a closet), it’s all too much and somehow we still don’t feel like we’re doing enough. We’re supposed to do it all (and make it look easy), but it feels like an equation that always adds up to “well, if you can’t figure out how to do it all you must be a loser!” Today’s guest is Kendra Adachi, AKA The Lazy Genius. Kendra is the author of The Plan: Managing Your Time Like A Lazy Genius, a book that is nearly the exact opposite of any time management book I’ve ever read, and a message I desperately needed to hear. - Please send us your questions and comments about this episode or any other! You can email us at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 612-568-4441. — Check out Nora on YouTube. Find all our shows and more at feelingsand.co.

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0:41.1	description. So see over on YouTube if that's what you're into. What a sales gal I am.
0:52.3	Hi, everyone. It's Nora McInerney, and we are just a few weeks away from the new year,
0:58.2	where the self-improvement economy is going to kick into overdrive with big, loud, flashy messages about
1:06.2	how you can do more and be more and set goals and accomplish them and rip the lid off 20, 25.
1:13.7	And man oh man, is that a hard siren song for me to resist?
1:17.8	Because I am a recovering perfectionist and a person who is also recovering from tying my
1:25.1	value very tightly to my accomplishments, which makes me deeply unspecial because
1:31.6	the culture that we live in really does love a productive person, an efficient person,
1:37.6	a person who can wake up every morning and sees the day before the day even knows,
1:42.9	like, what's happening.
1:44.0	The day has not even started,
1:45.9	and you've got your hand around its neck, and you're like, I'm in charge. That's the kind of
1:50.8	person we like. And that's the kind of person I have always stried to be. And sometimes I think
1:58.0	that I'm there. And most times I feel like I could be there if I have the right
2:03.4	notebook or the right planner or the right order of operations. I always ask people how they do
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