As we get a little closer to spring break and summer which inevitably involves a trip or two, I wanted to do an episode to help us think about trips with a little more intention. The ten things apply to work trips, family vacations, girls weekends, all the things. If you leave your house for more than a night or two and then come back home, this episode will be helpful.

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• Episode #165: The Lazy Genius Packs for a Trip
• Episode #248: The Lazy Genius Guide to Easier Travel
• Episode #265: How to Come Home from Vacation
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I did an episode on organizing paper over five years ago, and it’s solid. But it’s time to look at it again. Because paper is everywhere. It’s like Michael Scott said in that episode of The Office where they make their own TV commercial: limitless paper in a paperless world.

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Kids are wonderful. Kids are also annoying. Parenting asks us to love them while they push our buttons, and if we don’t think ahead, we might react in ways we regret.

In this episode, three things to remember when your kid is driving you up a wall, plus seven common frustration points and how to handle them with a little more intention.

Not a parent? No pressure to listen! But if you need a different episode today, Episode 302: The Lazy Genius Guide to Basketball is here to help you survive March Madness.

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If you think like a Lazy Genius, there are three surprising steps to a clean house. They’re a short little row of dominoes that impact how you see your home and what you do to keep it clean. And maybe your definition of clean will shift a little, too. 

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This kind of episode is like Christmas for me. I love talking about planning but with a compassionate, flexible bent. We do not need anymore rigidity or weird shame spirals about failed plans. No thank you. We’re just living our lives, putting things in place where we can, intending to do whatever we decide, but then lowkey expecting that not all of those things will happen. We need to be flexible with both our plans and ourselves. Today, I’m going to give some ideas on how to approach both. 

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I’m always honored when you all say I’m the big sister you’ve never had, and I think sometimes we need a good ol’ pep talk from a big sister. Today’s is about selfishness.

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Man, I love these episodes. I love lists so that’s obviously a blast, but intentionally looking for the good things, the life-saving things, the joyful things in my life right now is something I hope I never stop doing. So today I have a list of ten things, a pretty mixed bag per usual. What brings me life and saves my life is going to be different from yours. But I will try and do a good job of sharing why that thing is on the list so that you might better understand why something is on your personal list.

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•  I’ve Got Questions: The Spiritual Practice of Having It Out with God by Erin Moon (affiliate link)
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For whatever cocktail of reasons, life just feels like a lot right now. An extra amount of a lot. Constant chaos feels like the norm instead of the exception.

Finding calm in the chaos is not just a cute alliterative podcast title. It’s required. It’s survival for me right now. It’s necessary spiritually and mentally healthy work for me to actively seek, create, and receive calm in the chaos of life right now, and I want to share ten ways you might try doing that, too.

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• Episode #403: How I Get Stuff Done When I Don’t Feel Like It
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This is a universal problem. All of us have stuff we have to do and we just don’t feel like doing it. So either we don’t do it and get behind or we do it but with much reluctance. Neither option is fun. So today, I’m sharing ten things that help me get my stuff when I don’t feel like it.

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• Episode #238: How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
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• Episode #21: The Lazy Genius Does Laundry (see also: Episode #113: The Lazy Genius Does Laundry Updated!)
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Y’all are super familiar with this episode by now, but I’m going to take some of your questions from Instagram and Lazy Genius them. I will say that any time we do these episodes, the answers in the post are so good. Some I don’t even answer because y’all do such a great job of answering each other’s, all with a compassionate Lazy Genius lens. So after you listen to this, don’t hesitate to scroll through past Office Hours Instagram posts @thelazygenius because they are quite excellent.

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• Episode #334: How to Create a Relaxing Home Routine
• Episode #254: Chores I Do Every Day
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Live in your season is one of the thirteen Lazy Genius principles I write about in my first book, The Lazy Genius Way, and fun fact: it was the hardest chapter to write. Even though I talk about contentment in that chapter, a theme we now cover quite often, I was still hanging on to the greatness train by my fingertips.

In this episode, I’m going to share a few highlights about what it means to live in your season since we can always use a reminder, and I’m going to share how that personally looks in my own life years after releasing that first book.

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