Sometimes I feel like it’ll take just one sassy comment or one missed homework assignment or one line at the store that’s longer than I expected before I just lose it. Sometimes life is like that, and it’s normal and okay. But most of us don’t want to stay there for very long.

Today, I’m going to share with you five things to remember and five things to do when everything is a little annoying.

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Episode #409: How to Parent When Your Kid is Annoying

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It’s around this point, towards the end of October, that we all start feeling the pressure. The rest of the year is coming like a snowball rolling down a hill. Today, we’re going to tend to that energy and create some ways to make the rest of 2025 easier and also more joyful, grounded, and rooted in whatever matters to you.

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Episode #339: How to Make the Rest of 2023 Easier

Episode #392: How to Make the Rest of 2024 Easier

Episode #330: How I Handle a Busy Season

Episode #431: 5 Things to Avoid When Planning a Busy Season

Episode #364: When Life Feels Like a Firehose

Episode #385: How to Manage an Odd Stretch of Time

Episode #395: How to Finish Last-Minute Lists

Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism

Episode #306: What We Need to Have More Fun

Episode #347: How to Know What Brings You Joy

One line a day journal

One second a day app

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Chores I Do Every Day, Part 1 is one of our most popular episodes we’ve ever done, but it was three and a half years ago. A lot has changed in our home and family in that amount of time, so I’m excited to share an updated version

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Episode #254: Chores I Do Every Day

Episode #91: The Lazy Genius Organizes Paper

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We have an Office Hours episode once a quarter where you send in your questions and I answer them here on the podcast. This is the first time we’ve had a themed Office Hours episode, so that is very exciting. Before we get into a whole episode answering your questions about routines, remember that a Lazy Genius routine isn’t about the steps. It’s about where you’re wanting to go.

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Other episodes like this one: #402, #426, #413, #315, #354, and #327

Office Hours with the Office Ladies

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This is a community that values people and relationships and connection, and having people into our homes is so integral to us building homes, neighborhoods, and entire cultures that tend to each other, that enjoy being together, and that let each other in. I’m sharing what personally matters to me about hospitality and the ten things I always do to support it.

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What do we do when we’re hit with something out of our control within our own bodies, in the bodies of people we love and live with, or from the world itself? What do we do when we are forced to pivot away from what we planned because our energy or our attention can’t function the way they were when we made that plan? That’s what I want to consider today.

Spoiler: I don’t have an answer, not a concrete, formulaic one anyway. But I do have some thoughts about when we have to gracefully pivot. 

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Episode #101: The Lazy Genius Deals with Sickness

Aundi Kolber (she was on the show a few years ago — listen to Episode #230: How to Feel Like a Person)

Episode #310: How to Pivot Around Any Obstacle

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Simpsons fans —THE VAULT IS OPEN! 

I’m Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I’m finally taking you inside Springfield. Simpsons Declassified is your all-access pass to the world’s most iconic, animated  series.  

Each week, we crack open wild predictions, eerie coincidences and fan conspiracies and stories  from 36 seasons (that’s 800+ episodes!) behind-the-scenes with writers, directors, the cast and  celebrity superfans, PLUS…Simpsons-themed games— play along and test your Springfield IQ.  

Hear exclusive stories from our guests who were there! Perhaps some scenes that almost never  aired, the jokes that died, the ones that lived and the moments that still shock me at the mic. 

Produced and showrun by Monica Gil-Rodriguez. From Audacy Podcasts and CRE84U  Entertainment.

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October through December sometimes feels like a really fun roller coaster but you don’t always feel like you have time to buckle your seatbelt. This episode is going to help you not just survive a busy season but really enjoy it.

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Episode #121: How to Build a Fall Dinner Queue

Episode #434: 10 Ways I Feel Like Myself

Counterweights: An Essential Practice for Holding Hope in a Heavy World by Shannan Martin

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I get this question a lot, “How do you figure out what makes you feel like yourself? Is it even possible when you’re wearing all the hats and pulled in all the directions?”

I’ve always said yes it is. You just have to find the things that make you feel like you. Well, when I started working on this episode and made my list of things, I found a level of nuance I’ve never really named before. Essentially, there are things that wake you up and other things that fill you up, and that difference might make a difference. Let’s get into it!

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Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, NC

Episode #258: The Seven Kinds of Rest and How to Know Which One You Need

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In today’s episode, I’m giving you five questions to ask to help you get your to-do list in a place that feels way more doable. It’s a simple process you can follow that takes less than five minutes, and I promise it’ll help. Then I’m sharing what my own personal to-do list routine looks like because sometimes hearing ideas from other people helps us find our own.

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Episode 417: My Favorite Planning Tool Ever

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