The Lazy Genius Podcast - Decide What You Want More Of

Episode Date: August 31, 2026

Last week, we decided what we’re done with, and this week we’re going to add instead of subtract. By the end of this episode, I want you to have identified one pleasurable thing that you enjoy and have a plan to add it to your life. One is better than zero, and six will lead to zero because it’s too big. So we’re going to start with one, and I’m really excited about it.Helpful Companion LinksOrder my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy.Episode #483: Decide What You’re Done WithEpisode #178: How to Start a HobbyEpisode #280: How to Find Your Personal StyleSign up for our every-other-week podcast recap emailSign up for my once-a-month newsletterGrab 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 or record your idea and share your voice on the show.

Welcome to the lazy genius podcast where we all get to be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. Every Monday, you'll learn to compassionately manage your time, wisely solve problems, and kindly live in your season. I'm your host, Kendra Adachi, and I am so glad you're here. Today is episode 484. Decide what you want more of. Last week, we decided what we're done with, and this week we're going to add. Instead of, of subtract. By the end of this episode, I want you to have identified one pleasurable thing that you enjoy and have a plan to add it to your life on a regular basis. One thing is better than zero and six things. If you start too big, it's going to lead to zero because it's too big. So we're going to

start with one and I'm really excited about it. While last week's episode is not required listening for this one, I do think it's easier to add after you have taken. some things away. Otherwise, there's like no room. So if you have not listened to last week's episode, you might enjoy listening to that first. But if you didn't, you're not going to be lost today. One quick reminder from last week, though, we talked about four categories of tasks that I will reference again today. I think pretty much every single thing that you do in life goes in one of these four categories. And by seeing your life through those four categorical lenses, you can more easily identify what you're done with and what you want more of. So the four categories

of things we do every day are responsibilities, commitments, pleasures, and distractions. So responsibilities are things we have to do. And the list is very long. Commitments are things we say will do. And the list can feel long if we don't set good boundaries about what we're going to say yes to. Pleasures are things we like to do. But we don't do those very much, which is, what we're going to talk about today. And then distractions are things that we do not have to do that often do not give us pleasure anyway, but we still do them. In fact, that final category, that is the secret sauce. When you pay attention to what distracts you and then limit those things, things like algorithms, overthinking, over planning, you will have loads more space for the other

three things. You will have space for the responsibilities and commitments and especially the pleasures, the things that you genuinely like that offer enjoyment and joy. What's funny is that whenever we talk about creating more space for what matters, it's easy for that space to get filled up with more responsibilities and commitments. Even when there's time, pleasure gets the last bit of energy. Now, this is not just a you problem. there's like historical evidence and scientific data that shows us how and why we tend to fill empty space with productivity. Some of that comes from Western culture. We're a group of hustlers

who think that everything has to be great. The American dream itself is that anybody can make an amazing life for themselves, but an amazing life is subjective and often impacted by what culture and even corporations value, things like efficiency. optimization, greatness, wealth, controlling your own life. Underneath all of that is a sense of discontentment that what you have, how much money you make, what your house looks like, what you eat, how you look, how many friends you have, that all of those things are subpar, that you need to keep hustling and searching for whatever is going to make you the best version of yourself and your life.

life the best version of itself. All of that noise makes like contented pleasure quite a bear. It's just real hard to get our head around it. And if you're a woman, those cultural pressures are even heavier. You feel like not only are you really not allowed to like do things that you enjoy just for the sake of doing them, but you have to justify doing those things. You have to give a reason like, well, I did all of these things. So now I can do this, you know, fun thing. And that's just because there are too many other responsibilities and commitments and quote unquote more important things that you should be doing. Now, not only does culture not want you to be content and enjoy your life when your life is ordinary. An ordinary life is a beautiful thing.

Your own brain creates obstacles that prevent you from believing that you have time. A lot of people operate with like a scarcity mindset that there's not enough time to do everything that's needed and that impacts your psychology. Psychologies call it time affluence. When you are time affluent, you believe you are rich in time, that you have enough time to get things done. Many of us are not time affluent. We are worried about scarcity, panicking that not everything got done by the end of the day, and maybe even resentful of like coworkers and family members who are completely unaware of how much we're carrying and we feel like we're carrying more than our fair share, which we might be. We might be. And that is why we need to talk about adding more pleasurable things to your life.

You do not want to be a person who has panicked over time. And you also don't want to be a person whose brain is always preoccupied with it, with what you still have left to do and how to get more of it done. That's why last week we talked about letting things go, not just things in your schedule, but the harmful ways that you think about your responsibilities, commitments, pleasures, and distractions. If you think that your responsibilities need to be done perfectly, you will micromanage, obsess, become impatient, and not be fun to be around. Plus, responsibilities now take more time and effort because of how you think about them. Same goes for commitments. You keep saying yes to things that don't matter or that do, but you just do not have time for them

in this season, but you say yes because you feel bad for saying no or because you like to make people happy or because you carry guilt that you should be doing more. All of those thoughts impact your time. They will make you feel like you have less time. They will make you feel less time affluent before you've even done anything. You live with the belief. inside you that you do not have enough time for the quote unquote important things, much less the fun things. And you get that confirmation from culture. So it feels like a hamster wheel, but one that's like powered by a diesel engine,

which is why teaching you to decide and actually do what you want more of is a little like trying to like force you all to bungee jump off a bridge. Like it's terrifying. it feels so impossible. Why on earth would you do this when there are so many other things that need your attention? It's patriarchy. It's hustle culture. It's mom guilt. It's just this fun cocktail of personal messages and cultural influences and brain chemistry that make it really hard for us to stop working and have fun. Just do something you like. So we're going to bungee jump off the bridge together and trust that making room for what we want more of will not

make life more complicated, busier, or irresponsible. But it will make life more expansive, spacious, and like genuinely lovely. Now, why is this worth it? Why is deciding what we want more of and then actually doing it worth it? Well, because joy, fun, and pleasure in the form of hobbies, relationships, movement, or whatever you genuinely love, those things make life better. They raise dopamine. They give you a like a literal chemical boost to feeling good, not just a quick one from an algorithm, like it's continued. Doing things that you enjoy, it lowers your stress levels. And stress levels are a culprit of a lot of health problems. There was even a global study done in 23 about hobbies. And across dozens of countries and tens of thousands of people, the data clearly shows

that people with hobbies that they regularly enjoy report better health, higher life satisfaction, less depressive symptoms, and just more overall happiness than people who do not do those, do regular hobbies. So finding what you love and adding more of it to your life, I mean, it's like genuinely beneficial. So if that's the case, why would we not do it? Why would we not do it? well, as I already said, some of it is because of hustle culture. Like if the goal is to be great to manage and measure success in the form of body shape, bank accounts, education, accolades, your children's, all of those things. Like, there's not much room left for spending a few hours doing a puzzle.

Now, some of you listening feel that pressure. You feel the pull to be the best that you can be in every area of life. and that's like four full-time jobs. There's no time for simple pleasures or enjoyments that exist just for the sake of being pleasurable. But I do think a majority of this audience is no longer dazzled by all that. You're not dazzled by hustle culture anymore. Like if you have been here for any length of time, you're like, oh, yeah, I'm trying to be great. And everything is the pits.

Like, why would I do that? And you've been steadily becoming a lazy genius, being a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. And there's a lot that doesn't actually matter. but still you avoid pleasures. But I think the reason is sneakier. Even though you're done trying to be awesome at everything, there is still so much to do. I mean, it just is.

There's so many hats to wear and so many people and things to take care of. You are being lazier about some of that and you're using lazy genius principles to make some of those things easier, but you still put your enjoyment and pleasure at the back of the line. You still sacrifice your own needs for the needs. of others. It's like cloaked in care, but I think a lot of people take it too far. And frankly, I think that comes with the territory of being a mom, being a woman, really, but specifically a mom. Now, I shared this in last week's episode. But if everyone in my family had like a column and each person got a tally in their column every single time they did

something for someone else or sacrificed what they were going to do for the sake of another person, My column of tallies would be wildly higher than everyone else is. I make a lot of sacrifices as a wife and a mother in my home. And I bet you do too if those are your roles. But that does not mean that I always need to do that. That's not like an always thing. Like I said last week, it is so important to let go of weighty self-sacrifice, self-righteous self-sacrifice, resentful self-sacrifice. You don't always have to be the one to take the hit. I also said this on Instagram last week. I want you to stop attaching your pleasures to a responsibility or a commitment and not just letting them exist on their own. Like listening to an

audiobook while you're washing dishes. I mean, sure, please do. Please listen to an audio book while you're washing dishes. But if that's the only time you are choosing enjoyments and adding what you want more of, you're selling yourself and your people short. Not every pleasure has to be attached to something productive. Just do something fun for the sake of doing something fun. We are all better humans in the world when we freely enjoy what we love. We have more fuel to do the responsibilities and commitments when we actively and intentionally spend time on what we genuinely want more of. So before we get into the practical how of this, I want to speak to one more group. I do think there's a group of lazy geniuses.

who like you you already live this way you like I know that I personally live this way I prioritize things that I enjoy all the time like with no I've worked past all that guilt and stuff I'm like no no thank you I'm all do things I like I read a lot I love doing puzzles I make art and I play music and I go for walks and I hang out with friends and I go thrifting I have so many genuinely pleasurable things in my life and I rarely go through seasons without them and you may be that person too but what can happen might, what this might also happen to you, is that in certain busy seasons or in transitional times, I lose track of those things. Like too many get squeezed out by a busy calendar or a sudden change in like our daily rhythms or something. And then I like don't quite know how to get back to what I love.

You know, it's like I got locked out of the room and I can't remember the code to get back in. So if that is you, this short process is the code. So even if you have high levels of time affluence and you don't struggle at all with like the emotional undercurrent of harmful self-sacrifice, sometimes you need to fast track getting back to what you love during a busy season. So that will be for you. So now that you, all of you believe, or at least are starting to believe that it's worth it. It's genuinely worth it to add pleasures to your. life in an intentional way, or if you just need a reminder, because busyness has gotten the better review, this is our process. We are going to use our trusty old lazy genius method for this,

but in the like speediest application ever. We're going to figure out what you want more of, get rid of what's in the way of it, put the pleasurable thing in its place, and we're going to make sure that it sticks around. Here's a very important component as we begin, figuring out what you want more of. You are going to leave this episode with. one thing. Just one thing. Just one. Like talk of systems and methods, it can feel complicated and overwhelming, but really, all we're doing is going in the right order, which is what lazy geniuses do. And we just so happen to be going in the right order to get you to one thing that you want more of in your life and then plan to actually add it. So as we do this, remember that. Remember the goal is

just to leave with one thing. Like this process will work with other things. down the line, but I want you to begin with one so that you will actually do it. Like I said at the top, it's better to focus on one and do it than try to force six and then not do any of them. If you've been around a while, you know the five-step lazy genius method already. Prioritize, essentialize, organize, personalized, and systemize. In less like icy terms, you're going to name what matters, then get rid of what's in the way of that you're going to put the thing that matters in its place and everything that supports it in place. You want to feel like yourself in that process.

And then you want to stay in a flow of making sure that whatever that thing is happens. That's just the basic order to lazy geniusing anything. So let's start at the top. Let's start with prioritize. I want you to name what matters, specifically the pleasure that you want more of in your life. Now, you might immediately know. You're like, I want to paint more. I haven't painted in forever and I miss it.

I want to add more painting in my life. Amazing. So if that is you, you're done with the first step. Good job. Hang on for just a minute. Most folks need a little time to figure it out, especially if you haven't done anything that you really, really enjoy on a regular basis for a long time. So because like you might be saying, oh man, I feel like I need more of a lot of things. That's cool. You can list them out in your head on paper to a friend or a partner. don't worry if what you list is like really broad and abstract like I just want quiet like just list it you've got to start somewhere right so just start where you are that as you decide the one thing that you want to add more of into your life I want you to pay attention to a couple of factors as you

sort of like bring that list to one thing first your season you got to live in your season you got to That is the lazy genus principle that's like always peeking around the corner, hoping to not be forgotten. It's like, hi, I'm your season. Pay attention to me. It's so important that you remember what your life looks like right now so that you can make choices appropriately. Now, listen up. Am I saying that if you are in a season of being home with little kids that you just can't expect to do things you enjoy so much in this season? Girl, absolutely not.

Absolutely not. The opposite. The opposite. in fact. Sometimes living in our season means paying attention to our limitations. And sometimes, like right now, it means looking at what we need the most. What pleasure do you need the most right now in this season? Fight for it because it matters right now. It will also help you cross out other things on your list that don't matter as much right now. So you might be like, man, I would love to walk more. I'd love to go out and do things in the city more. And I'd love to see my best friend more.

Okay. Great. All are great things. But what do you need the most in this season, let's say, of being home with tiny humans? Imagine if you were to see your friend once or twice a week while the kids are around or not, but that's probably easier. to make happen, right? Versus walking solo twice a week by yourself, versus going to some new place in the city with or without your kids once a week. Which one of those things feels the most life-giving right now for the season that you're in? And then pick that one. It's not that you can't do the other things when the opportunity arises. Of course you will. It's not like you're never going to walk again. But right now, we are prioritizing, adding one place.

pleasurable activity to your life in a thoughtful, intentional, and dare I say, systemized way. So don't think you're crossing other things out and will never do them. They just don't get like all the attention right now. They don't get the plan. Okay. So pick the thing that is the most life-giving and enjoyable for your season right now. Okay. Now, if you've made your list and doing that, naming your season did not help you choose one

thing, then I just want you to choose the smallest, easiest, most sustainable, most tangible thing on your list and add that. Like, start the smallest and then let it grow. When you start with the smallest, easiest, most sustainable, most tangible thing, you will incorporate it into your life more quickly, which means you can add something else sooner. It's like paying off the credit card with the lowest balance first, you know? Get an easy win. If you can't decide, just get an easy win. enjoy whatever that small pleasure is and then soon you can add another one in a regular way. So here's like a long list of ideas to get you thinking. Not all of these are as small as they could get, but you don't have to make it small right now.

The other steps will help kind of finesse that as you go through the process. So don't sweat it. But here are some ideas to just get you thinking. I want to drink my morning coffee on my porch without being in a rush. I want to have fresh flowers in my house every day. I want to take long, unhurried showers or baths every weekend. I want to read a physical book that I hold in my hands every day. I want to listen to music that I love every day,

rather than worrying about listening to something new. I want more live performances in my life, like concerts and plays. I want more time to browse a favorite store or walk around downtown. I want to watch the entire Alfred Hitchcock filmography by the end of the year. I want to try an artistic discipline that is new to me. I want to play games with people more often. I want more days off, namely one day a month where I have no agenda but fun. I want more exposure to where I live in the form of new restaurants and parks and events.

I want to watch more sunrises or sunsets. I want to have people over for dinner more often. I want more chances to make something with my hands. I want to play my violin more. I want to enjoy more things without having to feel like I earned them. I want one fun or silly thing on the calendar every single week, even something small and ordinary like a family game night so I can look forward to it. I want more things to look forward to that are scheduled on the calendar.

Find a statement like this and make it your priority for the rest of our lazy genius method. What is your priority right now in this season? Not forever and not to the exclusion of everything else. But unless you start small with one thing, you're not going to do anything. So name what you want to add the most right now. All right. Step two in our lazy genius method is to essentialize. You've got to get rid of what's in the way. Oh man. So many things can be in the way of having fun and doing things just because they're pleasurable. We already talked about a few, but I do want you to get specific for yourself. What is keeping you from enjoying your morning coffee without rushing through it? What is keeping you from family or friend game night?

What is keeping you from taking an unhurried bath? What is keeping you from scheduling fun things on your calendar? Now, there could be specific things. You know, it's like mental hangups that you have or a weird schedule that creates like inconsistent evenings at home. Maybe you're checking in on an aging parent every day after work. or transitioning to being a one-car family, which makes logistics more complicated. It could be a million things.

I do think one of the biggest culprits, though, is distraction. If you cannot name an obvious obstacle that's in the way of what you want more of, if you already cannot name it, then your obstacle is likely some sort of distraction. We talked about that last week, but distractions often take up way more time than commitments and responsibilities do. And not just the internet or scrolling for a long time. Our own heads are full of distractions that cause stress, overwhelm, decision paralysis, or like just giving up.

You don't think that your home is up to par to have people over all the time, so you don't. You don't think that you have time in the morning to sit on your porch and enjoy your coffee, but that's because you're up at 1130 saving a million cottage cheese recipes on Instagram that you're probably never going to make. You don't think that you can go for a walk around the block every day because you've got too much to do. But some of what you did today was ask chat, GBT, how to organize your schedule and you pulled out some highlighters to try and do it.

Algorithms. Overthinking. Overthinking. Prolonging a decision out of fear of getting it wrong. Micromanaging. Over researching. Gathering information about how to optimize without really applying it and then feeling guilty that you haven't applied it. All of these things are massive distractions that are keeping

you from painting, walking around the block, playing your violin, meeting a friend for a beer. It's really hard to add pleasure to your life when distraction is filling so much of the space. So name what's in the way and get rid of it. Get rid of it. Okay, next up is to organize or put everything in its place. So where does this like small pleasure need to go? What do you need to have in place to make it happen? If you want to paint more, but your canvases and brushes are in the back of a closet behind a bunch of stuff, get them out. Put them somewhere where you can easily sit down and paint. If you want to walk in the woods behind your house or at the park near your work, put your shoes and even like a little basket of socks by the door or in your desk at work so you can put your shoes on right away.

without having to go and find what you need. If you want to add more baking into your life, make sure that you have flour and sugar and butter and a recipe that you want to perfect. Put whatever you need in its place, whether it's like items that you can see or put things in the right time of day so that you will more easily do this thing that you love more often. So step four is personalized. but since we're already setting a deeply personal priority in deciding what you want more of, this one will likely have a smaller footprint because you're already, the whole thing is

kind of personalized, right? But I want this to be your check. Are you doing this thing? Are you wanting to add this thing into your life because you think you should? Like, is this really for you? I just want you to make sure that you're paying attention to what genuinely makes you feel like yourself in the season and not what you think. you should be answering. Okay. Okay. So step five, this is where we grease the wheels, you guys. Step five is to systemize or stay in a flow. If you want to add something pleasurable to your life on a daily or weekly basis or whatever, you want to set yourself up so you will actually do it. You want to do it. Not just think about it. You want to do it. And that is where some of our favorite lazy genius

principles come in and also where you can use alarms, sticky notes, calendar items, other people, visual cues like your paints being out to do the thing. Okay. So if you want to drink your coffee on the porch every morning, start small. It's the lazy genius principle. Start small. And just do it today if it's still morning or tomorrow if it's not. Beyond that, you can set a reminder on your phone or a screen time limit to go to bed at a certain time so you can wake up in time to have your coffee in the morning. Or you can go in the right order, lazy jeans principal, and realize that you cannot enjoy that coffee on the porch until your children are at school.

It has to go children, then coffee. So like, if you're a person who's like, I have to have coffee before I open my eyes, you know, do, like, take care of your children with like a medicinal cup of coffee in your body. Like, don't enjoy it. Just drink it. It's fine. Do your stuff.

and then have the pleasurable cup of coffee once everyone's gone. You know, you can set an alarm on your phone for 8 a.m. when everyone is gone that says coffee time. You can put your favorite counter on the mug when you load the dishwasher from dinner to queue you in the morning. So like just use simple reminders, simple lazy genus principles to just keep whatever that thing is in a flow. But honestly, just start small. it's okay if you forget some days. But just try to set yourself up in sustainable ways. And this is why you choose one thing at a time and why you make it very small. If you say that you want more laughter in your life, which is like a worthy addition,

there's nowhere to really start, you know, like, okay, somebody tell me a joke. Like, you know, it's just that's hard. That's pretty big. So you've got to make that smaller so you can systemize it and integrate it into your life more specifically and easily. So it's a lot of method words for being a pretty simple process. But the order matters all the same, which is what we do as lazy geniuses as we go in the right order. Don't just decide what you want more of. Decide on one thing that is small enough to do and then get rid of what's in the way of that happening and then put things in place to make sure that that, you know, that that thing can happen and then pay attention that you're doing this for the person you are right now

in this season and that this one thing you're adding will feel really, really good in your life and then use a principal or a tangible reminder to make it happen. Start by making it happen today and then try to make it happen tomorrow and then hopefully the next day. That will be easier because you're only adding one thing. And I challenge you to not do your one pleasurable thing while you're doing something productive. This is not that. You already know how to do that. Add one pleasurable thing to your daily, ordinary life without it being attached to anything else.

Enjoy that one thing. Enjoy it for as long as it works and makes you feel good. Then you can add something else using the same process. take your time. Tinker if the timing does not work. If like when you do this pleasurable thing, like what day or what time of the day if it doesn't work or if the regularity of it needs to shift daily is really hard, but like every other day works better. Like don't just start over or give up if it doesn't work right away. Most things don't work right away. Tinker. Try something for a bit and then adjust to make it work even better. Your life should.

should not be mostly responsibilities, commitments, and distractions. Like the pie chart should not be like a third to each of those and then like a little sliver of pleasure. I want you to flip pleasures and distractions. Pleasures should get the third. They should get a third. When you give yourself space to enjoy your life and do things that matter and make you happy that bring you pleasure just for the sake of the pleasure itself, you will have

more energy. for the other things and less tolerance for the stuff that gets in the way. Pleasure takes practice, like honestly. So start practicing with this one thing that you chose today. And as you do, you're going to be like, oh man, this is great. And I'm still getting stuff done. And I would rather do this thing than this other distracting thing that I used to do a lot of. And because I don't want to give up this pleasure that I really love so much,

I'm going to limit commitments and say yes to the things that I actually really deeply care about, not just the things I feel bad saying no to. This works, you guys. It does. It's such a beautiful way to live. And I hope that trying, even just adding this one thing to your life this week, brings you some joy and contentment. And that is how to decide what you want more of.

After the break, we'll have a mini office hours about finding your personal style. And we'll hear from our lazy genius of the week with a great idea for how to more regularly clean the bathroom. So we'll be right back. All right. For today's mini office hours, we have a question from I Am Gold on Instagram. I Am Gold says, I'm 52 and I don't have any sort of style when it comes to my hair or clothing.

I don't know how to figure out what looks good when I consistently answer in the playbook that my pajamas make me feel most like myself. Comfort is what matters most. I love this question. Okay. Do you know what my first answer is? You don't have to have a style. Like not everyone needs to have like cue hair or outfits with a point of view. Like you can wear whatever you want. You can wash and air dry your hair without a single product. You're not wearing any makeup. Like you do not have to make yourself look a certain way just to be able to say you have a style. Like style is optional. It's not essential. It's fine. Now, sure. For the unique cases of like a job interview or going to a wedding or something, like it's nice to ask for help from

someone who does love style and can help you pick out an outfit or do your makeup or whatever. But hear me, ladies especially, you on a regular day, day after day, you do not have to have a style. If the motivation comes from, I should have a style. Forget it. Like be lazy about it. It does not matter. It doesn't matter to you and it doesn't have to matter. okay all right so now if you don't enjoy your lack of style if you're like well i hear you kinder and i

believe you but i also really would like to have a sense of style uh if you would like to have a haircut that works really well or a style of clothing or like an outfit formula that makes you feel good that's different if it matters to you then it's good to take a little time to figure it out right now luckily luckily i have an entire episode dedicated to you to this. Episode 280 is called How to Find Your Personal Style. I share a handful of style perspectives in that episode, things like your body is good, you don't have to be a fruit, you don't have to follow trends unless you want to. Your personal style does not have to be stylish and you can dress how you want to feel. And then I use the lazy genius method that we just used to practically help you

move towards finding your personal style. It's a really great episode. So if you are on a quest, for your personal style where finding it actually matters to you, then I would listen to episode 280. And also you just don't have to care. Like be stereotypically unstylish and love your pajamas. Like that is okay and beautiful too. And now it's time for the lazy genius of the week. This week we have Jackie from Des Moines, Iowa. Jackie writes, one of the many benefits of hosting our weekly Tuesday community group at our house is that once a week, most of our house gets cleaned and tidied up. My husband helps the kids tackle the basement and their rooms while I do the main floor areas, kitchen, living room, hallway, bathroom. This system has worked

so well for us, but I realized I often neglected to clean our primary bathroom regularly because no one sees it during community group. The primary was not in our Tuesday rhythm, so I didn't have great motivation or remember to clean it regularly. Then I had an idea one day while showering in my not clean bathroom. I only wash my hair every three to four days. So I channeled my inner lazy genius and created a new decide once and batch it. On days that I wash my hair, I'll tackle cleaning one aspect of the bathroom for about five minutes before I shower. This has helped maintain the bathroom cleanliness level and eliminated the stress I felt every time I went in there. This is such a great approach to cleaning. I love this. And the tie-in of

multiple lazy genius principles. This also utilizes start small, maybe like my own personal, like used principle, like on a personal level, five minutes aimed at one thing in the bathroom, not the entire bathroom. Five minutes in the bathroom. When you start small, oh my gosh, your choices are more sustainable. They last longer. They actually start working. So this is fantastic, Jackie. Thank you for sharing. And congratulations on being the lazy genius of the week. All right, one quick update for our email list friends. So you all gave us great feedback in our recent survey about how we do emails. And so we have made a couple of changes that we hope are a better experience for everyone. So for the last year or so, the latest lazy letter, which is our monthly

newsletter and the book list, they both get delivered to your inboxes on the first Wednesday of every month. It used to be just like one email. And then last year we divided it into two. And well now we're going to adjust that and even spread it out a little bit more. So the newsletter, which we will probably just keep calling the newsletter, the newsletter will stay on the first Wednesday of the month like it usually does. But the book list is going to move to the second Wednesday of the month. So if you get both the newsletter and the book list, don't be alarmed this week when only the newsletter is delivered on Wednesday. The book list will come next week. And hopefully that's just like an easier rhythm for everybody. It will be for us too. I think the book list also might

even have like like more bones to it because I'm not writing two big newsletters in one day. There's more margin for me to actually like talk about stuff. So like this upcoming book list, I'm going to write about my rating system because I've gotten some questions about like, why are you giving three and a half stars to a book? It sounded like you didn't like very much. So I'm going to have space to explain how I write books. So we really appreciate your feedback and sharing your experience of getting our emails so that we can make those better for you. Just really appreciate it. We also moved our podcast recap email from Fridays to Thursdays.

And in the next one, I'm going to share one more thing. Well, really two more things because it's my two go-to protein smoothie recipe recipe recipe. recipes. Listen. Some things, something that I want more of in my own life is like simplicity when it comes to food and, but that's still like enjoyable. And these two smoothies have been that for me. So if you want my smoothie recipes plus a recap of this episode, you can sign up for a podcast recap email at the lazy genius collective.com slash recap, which goes out every other Thursday. If this episode was helpful to you, share it with someone you know, or leave a review on Apple podcasts. Both are small ways to support the show, but hugely helpful to us. So thank you so much

for your support. This podcast is part of the Odyssey family and the Office Ladies Network. This episode is hosted by me, Kendra Adachi, and produced by Leah Jarvis, an executive produced by Kendra Adachi, Jenna Fisher, and Angela Kenzie. Thanks y'all for listening. And until next time, be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. I'm Kendra. I'll see you next week.