The Lazy Genius Podcast

It’s that time again where I answer your questions on the podcast, helping you Lazy Genius life’s regular ol’ problems. Even though a lot of these questions have kids in their description, they’re all pretty universal no matter your living situation. Let’s jump in! Helpful Companion Links Order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy once it releases in October. How to...

The PLAN, my book on compassionate time management has been in the world for two weeks now, and I really hope you all have been enjoying it.  Books stick with us when there are catchy things, right? Frameworks, acronyms, illustrations, and analogies. The PLAN has all of those, but I wanted to spend a little time talking today about one of those analogies, and it, to me, is one of the most freeing...

Even the best compassionate time management practices won’t make chaos go away. In fact, compassionate time management just helps us feel more calm in the chaotic storms that life will always throw at us. We can’t always control the chaos. So when it hits, it’s nice to have some things you go to automatically that help you stay grounded, whole, and very much yourself when life feels chaotic. Today...

Compassionate time management is needed, and I believe that I am uniquely qualified to teach, share, and encourage it. I’m a recovering perfectionist, I’m good at systems, I’m a student of personal growth, I’m a therapy patient, and I’m a teacher. All of those things together have made me see the world through this very specific lens of compassion, and tomorrow is the day that the book I wrote to...

An odd stretch of time is when something significant changes the vibe of your daily life over a handful of days. Whether it’s a sickness, an injury, a guest, a project, it impacts your routines. It upends previously settled calendar logistics. It’s not always bad or even unwanted. It’s just odd. Let’s talk about navigating it well. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your...

I’ve been doing a lot of interviews recently, and a lot of the questions are understandably connected to the things we could or should be doing to have a better day. What are the routines, the tasks, the hacks that can get us to a place where we feel like we’re not underwater all the time? Well, the most accurate answer is that those aren’t the questions we should be asking. We really need a huge...

We do What’s Saving My Life episodes regularly, just about every quarter, and I find the practice helpful, light, enjoyable, and necessary to keep me rooted in my season. But today is a little different because it is a Hall of Fame episode. Remember, this is my personal list. This is not supposed to be replicated. Hear why these things are on my list to help you make yours, but by no means should...

Everyone has calendars to logistic (I know that’s not right, but I like it), and for certain people, seasons, families, those logistics feel like they’re going to eat you alive. Right now, my Google calendar has so many blocks in it, some of which overlap and I haven’t quite figured out how to reconcile those overlaps yet. It’s a whole thing, and maybe your calendar looks or at least feels like th...

We’re into compassionate time management around here, but it’s not just pep talks and high fives. We’re practical and kind, but we’re also educated. We are trying to understand why we struggle with time management, why we own so many planners, why we never feel like we’re doing enough, and even if we finally have let that go, we still struggle against the tide of everyone else making us feel bad f...

When you feel overwhelmed without knowing what to do, the overwhelming feeling stays big and might get bigger which then feels like a problem. So here you are, overwhelmed, unsure of what to do about it; the feeling gets bigger, the problem, even though it’s unnamed, also gets bigger, and so you start throwing big solutions at an unnamed problem that don’t work, which then causes you to feel even...

Today, I’m sharing a loose five-step framework for cleaning a room. If you do not have kids, this episode is not geared as much toward you. However, everyone has the capacity to want a clean room, so if you wish your room was cleaner and you struggle to keep it that way, this episode might actually help. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carryin...

This week marks the four-year anniversary of my first book, The Lazy Genius Way, and we’re going to celebrate by dedicating an entire episode to the 13 Lazy Genius principles. These are lifelong, long haul principles that will make your life more grounded, content, and help you continue to name and focus on what matters most to you in whatever season you’re in. Plus, they help you get your stuff d...

I do these episodes about once every season where I take your questions and problems and Lazy Genius them here in an episode. It’s a great way to have particular problems solved but more importantly to see how to think about solving problems, no matter what they are. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy once it releases in October....

August is almost here, and when it hits, it hits hard, especially if you have kids going back to school. So today, I’m going to do some of the work for you. I’ve gathered some of the biggest tasks you likely have to prepare for going back to school, and by listing them all together and sharing some ways to Lazy Genius them. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your library...

My third book, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius, releases in 78 days! Completely arbitrary, but on this random summer Monday, it sounds fun to talk about some behind the scenes details about the book. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy once it releases in October. Episode #166: Book Launching 101 Bonus: What’s the Dea...

Last week, I did an episode on all of your best summer ideas, and today I’m sharing the ten things we’re doing this summer that are saving my life. As always, this list is not something for you to copy. The point is to notice where you have problems, adjust, and see what works for you. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy once it re...

I asked y’all on Instagram for your best summer lifesavers so far, and holy moly did you guys deliver. These are some of the best ideas that align so well with what it means to be a Lazy Genius, to name what matters to you in the season that you’re in and then make choices that support that! Plus, those choices help you feel like yourself. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or...

As often happens when we go through life, we learn things along the way. And sometimes we learn things that we so desperately wish we had learned earlier. Does that negate their value now? No. Is learning part of the process? Of course. But I think we can learn a lot about ourselves now by acknowledging what we have already learned. Since it’s middle of summer energy, this felt like a great time t...

Summer is often a season for day trips for many reasons. Let’s apply the Lazy Genius Method to day trips to help you plan yours, but as we do, remember a key phrase: surprise and delight. It’s your energetic guiding light. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy once it releases in October. Book of the Month Breezy Instrumental playlis...

This episode is for those of you who would classify yourselves as readers and those of you who would not. I want us to look at the aspects of summer reading that are all over the Internet right now and decide if they are in or out for us as Lazy Geniuses. Are we paying attention to the best things? Are we telling ourselves the kind truths? Reading has some weird layers, and we’re going to address...

The decision tree that comes from "Can I have a snack?!" is exhausting, whether the question is coming from your kids or yourself. Snacks, especially in summer, are the bane of many an existence, so today we’re going to try to make handling them easier. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy once it releases in October. The kindest F...

For many of you, it’s summer, or you might already be a couple of weeks in. Regardless, I’m going to share my plan for a Lazy Genius summer, and hopefully it’ll show you some ways to apply these principles to your own plan but more importantly to how you pivot around the plan when those times come. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a co...

We do this episode every season, and I have seven things to share with you. But what do you do when things that normally save your life don’t work in a new season? I’m tackling that at the end of the episode today.   Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy once it releases in October. Shark FlexStyle Air Styling & Drying System tarte A...

My first book The Lazy Genius Way introduces 13 Lazy Genius principles that help you name what matters, ditch what doesn’t, and get stuff done. The first of those principles is Decide Once. Decide Once means you make one decision about one thing and you keep making that decision over and over until it doesn’t work for you anymore. Today, I’m sharing 20 decisions I keep repeating. Helpful Companion...

We know the feeling of Maycember. May has a similar energy to the beautiful chaos of December, but we forget it’s like that until we’re in it. I never remember how crazy May becomes until literally right now, and then it feels too late. If that’s you, this episode will help. Helpful Companion Links Pre-order my new book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy once it releases in O...