Goal setting can be a dangerous game. We can go overboard and try to do all the things, but when we don’t, we feel like complete failures. This week’s episode, I share three steps to help you move from goal-setting that doesn’t work to a mindset that does so that January starts feeling more exciting than terrifying.Links You May Find Helpful:Listen to last year’s New Year’s episode The Lazy Genius Sets Goals and read How to Set Goals Like a Normal Person.Here’s Emily P. Freeman’s The Next Right Thing podcast (p.s. she’s coming out with a book by the same name in April!).If you feel inspired in the new year to try something new, there’s a Lazy Genius way to do that.Sign up for a free PDF of questions to guide your intentions each month.Download a transcript of this episode!

#90 - Set the Right Goals Without Fizzling Out

Part systems expert, part permission giver, Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius, is here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

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No matter your level of extroversion or introversion, your age, your life stage, or any other factor, we all need friends. I tend to focus on more concrete things on the show, but I think that one of the reasons we struggle to find and maintain meaningful relationships is partly a logistical one.

#361 - Two Things That Make Friendship Easier

Is this maybe the most appropriately named pep talk of all time? Quite possibly. I have a feeling a lot of you always feel tired. In fact, like me, you feel tired so often that it’s annoying at this point. You’re tired of being tired. Will we ever not be tired?! 

I think we all need some solidarity in this space as well as some practical help. My goal is for you to get both.

#360 - A Pep Talk for the Perpetually Tired

While this episode is definitely seven routines that work for me, the reason I’m sharing them is not so that you will do them because they’ll work. It’s more to see how I arrived at certain routines, what priorities they support, and maybe they’ll inspire a small change or adjustment in your own routine that could make your life work better for you and the season you’re in

#359 - 7 Routines That Work for Me

We all have places we need to go, and we want to kindly and efficiently get there. That looks different for everyone though.

#358 - How to Kindly and Efficiently Get Where You Need to Go

One of the most foundational principles of managing your time like a Lazy Genius is to think about your season. We all need tangible help with planning. That’s why I wrote a book called The PLAN. But since it doesn’t come out until October and we need to plan some stuff now, let’s plan our spring together.

#90 - Set the Right Goals Without Fizzling Out

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