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there you're listening to the lazy genius

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podcast kendra adichie

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and i'm here to help you the a genius about the same the

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matter and lazy about the things that don't

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today's episode two hundred and seventy

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four the back to school starter pack

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it's the middle of august and the season

1:20

of back to school if you don't have kids

1:22

or aren't in education you might not be

1:24

super and as as episode that

1:27

they're also ideas you helpful things in the realm

1:29

of seasonal

1:30

transition

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there yeah basically i want to remind you

1:33

of all the things you might want to think about

1:36

and where we've already talked about the things on the

1:38

podcast remember back in episode

1:41

two hundred where we did the lazy genius

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starter enlisted twenty of the

1:45

best episodes that will impact your life right

1:47

away this is that the for going

1:49

back to school so let's break down some of

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the resources you might be into and will obviously

1:53

have links to all of these in the show nets the

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best place to start is with an episode i

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did last year around this time called

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get your back to school life together

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it's episode two hundred and twenty one in

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it i talk about you guessed

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it getting your back to school life together

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but one thing i want to highlight here that

2:11

in the beginning that episode i share

2:14

a perspective on narrowing

2:16

down what matters most

2:18

during the season we have a lot

2:20

of things that to matter right

2:22

now writes getting school supplies transitioning

2:26

routines making sure our kids have clothes

2:28

that fit transitioning play areas

2:30

two spots that can support homework to

2:33

a lot that we could think about rather

2:35

than say well i can only choose

2:37

one of those things to really focus on you

2:40

, think about all the areas

2:42

that you need to address the

2:44

ten name what matters most about

2:46

it about that area specifically

2:50

what matters most about

2:52

what matters most so instead of broadly

2:54

saying getting school supplies

2:56

matters because of course it as

2:58

what matters most about

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getting school for

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isn't that a process is quick or

3:04

fun or that it's done so low or done a

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family does budget matter

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to do you want everything to come from one place

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i want your kids to choose or that fine for

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you to

3:13

order stuff have it what

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matters most about what

3:18

matters

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though i go into detail and episode two twenty

3:21

one about that but i think that perspective

3:23

alone could help com a

3:25

little bit of the back to school crazy also

3:28

depending on your situation especially

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as it relates to cove id two years

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ago i did an episode called how

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to go back to school one

3:37

hundred and sixty and

3:39

that was focused more on going back to school

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you don't really know what going back to school gonna

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look like if , is your situation

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specifically that episode could be

3:49

really helpful to know another episode

3:52

to listen to and maybe start implementing

3:54

bit by bit now is episode two

3:57

twenty three the lazy genius

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out

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the door

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i mean oh wow that maybe one of the hardest

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things about being a person and

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being a person in charge of other smaller persons

4:07

and then doing that in a transitional time

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getting out the door so that episode

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is actually one of my favorites it's

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practical funny

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and full of a lot of solidarity because of how

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hard it is for us all to get out

4:21

the door so i recommend listening

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to that one or realising if you're already

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dead and as a sort of bonus episode

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getting out the door run around that time

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i recorded episode two hundred and

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twenty five which is called the

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shoe episode and ,

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that seriously an entire episode about

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how to deal with the shoes and your house particularly

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shoes that

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the last by your children

4:45

now it's not just an episode for children

4:47

shoes but that's a big challenge of

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out the door

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owning your own damn she is so

4:53

is that is a in your house that

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is an episode those into another

4:58

bonus if episode that related

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to getting out the door is episode two

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hundred and twenty six how batching

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and bags can get you out the door

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it's a practical look at how to think

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about your stuff when you're

5:12

leaving coming home

5:14

in such a way that you have what you need

5:17

without forgetting staff or

5:19

without having a bunch of crazy town lists

5:21

and complicated routines that

5:23

you don't remember to do anyway so

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if you are a person who has a hard time

5:28

the humans and their from one

5:30

place to another i think those three

5:32

episode

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it could be super super helpful

5:35

next up with park for a minute

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after school

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i think that i personally have an

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ideal in my head a

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dream that when my kids come

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home from they feel safe and

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and happy to be there and that energy

5:51

in our home after school is something

5:53

the remember when they're older now that

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as a lot of pressure to put on a very busy

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busy couple of hours rates between

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the war

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there but it isn't energy

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it matters to me and i think it matters to

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my kids so i think it's worth

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at least thinking it thinking

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about after school and starting

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small with how that x deals

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and that's why i for sure want

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to recommend episode 123 the

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lazy genius after school routine,

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which was a very long time

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ago september of 2019

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so pre-pandemic you guys wild

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but

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very relevant obviously no

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one thing that's really important to remember about the

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time after school is that

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it's borderline if not

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fully frantic for everyone it's

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a naturally frantic

6:44

saturated time of day know

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routine

6:48

the going to eliminated did you hear me

6:51

no routine as girl emanated it might

6:53

lessen it that is not going to make

6:55

it go away and that feels

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really say in this

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episode as we remember all

7:02

things that are going on going our homes and

7:04

in our kids and in ourselves

7:06

as you go back to school

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we think that if we're stressed

7:10

out in any way that

7:12

were doing something wrong that we're missing

7:14

something that we're creating a routine

7:17

or system or whatever that works

7:19

well enough because after school

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still feels a little loopy it

7:23

will always be a little loopy the

7:26

very nature of children

7:28

transitioning from school to home you

7:31

transitioning from having zero or

7:33

some of your kids to all of them homework

7:36

rest place dinner and everyone

7:38

having different and emotional means

7:40

when they go from school to home your as

7:42

a lot of naturally

7:45

gonna feel tight and that is even

7:47

more true if you are a working

7:49

parent it'll get off work until

7:51

five six and you're dealing with getting

7:53

kids from practice in daycare and grandmas

7:56

and getting groceries for dinner or coordinating

7:58

with another adult everyday speech schedules

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change on his getting ill it is little

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us it is a fruitless with

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less to expect that

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after school is going to be

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seamless and simple and com that

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is just not the nature of that time today now

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we can make small changes the

8:17

can strategically apply lazy

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genius principles to make it a little

8:23

that are a purist goal the

8:25

make things just a little easier wherever

8:27

we can that please

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he's hear

8:32

you get into school

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you find the after school time

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stressful

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the problem is not

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you

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it is not you

8:43

the problem is that after school stressful

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period

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there might be some things you can do one

8:49

at a time to create some kind

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of after school routine for yourself

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and your people and that is laid out in

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that episode and episode one twenty three

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let's talk about the general of time

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management time shift

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what school starts right

12:20

things pick up and change and even

12:23

know it's only the middle of august right now somehow

12:26

were already thinking about christmas

12:28

like it's so weird so is that category

12:31

time management stresses you out is figuring

12:33

out how to manage all the things stresses

12:35

you out here are a few episodes that could be

12:37

helpful first episode two

12:40

hundred and forty six five essential

12:42

mindsets for time management

12:45

planners and the tools and the hacks

12:47

and the pins and a processes that

12:49

is not where you start remember one

12:51

of the lazy genius principles that is the

12:53

most important that also

12:56

like the most quietly present and maybe even

12:58

little bit ignored sometimes is to go

13:00

in the right going

13:02

in the wrong order when it comes to time

13:04

management is starting with the tools

13:08

rather than starting with mindset we

13:10

want to change and a just

13:12

how think about our time

13:14

before we start to actively

13:17

manage it so that episode

13:19

is a fantastic dare i

13:21

say essential foundations

13:23

of the lazy genius way to think about time

13:27

moving beyond that a couple of my

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favorite episodes for time management are

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episode one seventy one seventy lazy

13:33

genius plans a day episode

13:35

one twenty four the lady genius weekly

13:38

plan and episode one

13:40

seventy three what your list

13:43

making personality all

13:45

three of those are practical episodes

13:48

to help you process how

13:50

you need to physically

13:52

tangibly organize your tasks

13:55

and your rest and your responsibilities

13:57

and also give me some language on

14:00

oh you personally might do that

14:02

we don't all plan our time the same we

14:05

don't all make lists same way we're

14:07

all different and expecting that

14:09

one way manage

14:12

time works for every person

14:14

is silly that's why i want

14:16

you to start with the episode about the mindsets

14:18

behind time management so that you can have

14:20

a better still sir for how to see

14:22

the practical tips and what best

14:25

applies to you and how your brain

14:27

and your life work the comic sans

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no single planner

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system calendar hack list

14:34

making approach work for everyone

14:36

the doesn't

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now oh how we want it to so

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badly right we really really wanted

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soup and that's why we keep searching

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the top certain

14:45

it before and i'm sure i'll say it many

14:48

times in the future the don't

14:50

focus on a planner focus on the practice

14:53

don't accept with the physical item you

14:55

will use slowly develop

14:57

a practice and then you'll be

14:59

more likely dead one of those

15:01

items that , physical

15:04

items a planner a system a calendar

15:06

that will work specifically for you and what you

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need for your practice because

15:10

you know what practice is

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andy final category they

15:16

can be troublesome one are going back to school is

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food making breakfast launches

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making dinner really i think

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your best bet the to get a

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the to in his kitchen teaches you

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the tools of how to create

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that actually because

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of to solve your own problems

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by the food situation as you transition

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out of summer and into fall that is my best

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with you as your kids get older

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stop working and stay home or you

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go from cooking from for one or two

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people to cooking five or six or

16:12

the other direction it's just a fabulous

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seasonal resource for you

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the person

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this of episodes related to food

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episode one twenty one how to build

16:25

a fall dinner a

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dinner q is covered in the lazy genius

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16:32

even it's essentially it's essentially list

16:34

of meals or recipes that

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16:38

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from the entire internet or from all of

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your cookbooks you have a queue you

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on what matters to you that episode

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one seventy four try

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a meal formula this fall

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i love a meal formula because it takes

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the idea of the dinner que put

17:04

even more structure

17:06

around it it's a loose framework

17:09

of how to choose seasonal meals

17:12

in a way that feels fresh and not repetitive

17:15

and not like you're biting off

17:16

more than you can chew

17:18

but it's still pretty automated an easy

17:20

so that's another meal planning yes episode

17:23

that you can try outs and then finally i

17:25

would like to bring back an oldie but goodie

17:27

episode sis be for the lazy

17:29

genius makes soup the are

17:31

i have gone so many over years since

17:34

this episode came out in march of when eating so

17:36

over four ago on how

17:38

people suit making just skyrocketed

17:41

after listening to this episode i'm telling

17:43

you there as there as order for how to make soups

17:46

and since is going to eventually probably

17:48

maybe start getting colder soon it's

17:50

soup time i want you to know how you can take

17:52

the soup that you aren't he makes the recipes

17:54

that you aren't he makes and going to make an even better

17:57

and tastier knowing how to do it

18:00

though those are some episodes for your back

18:03

to school starter pack

18:05

then putting this episode together i realize we don't

18:07

have anything specific about supplies themselves

18:10

like shopping for them so just know

18:13

already on the calendar for twenty twenty three will

18:15

do that next fall will do that and

18:17

so that and for now i hope that these

18:19

episodes even just or two of them can

18:21

be your companions over these next

18:24

few days and weeks and help

18:26

you little less stressed

18:28

and stressed and more excited

18:30

the go back to school

18:31

before we go let's celebrate the lazy

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of the this week it's rebecca beachy

18:36

who has the sweetest idea for

18:39

back to school obviously highly appropriate

18:41

for this episode rebecca email death

18:44

let your principal a deciding months without

18:46

realizing i had done it years ago

18:49

decided that our kids back

18:51

to school routine would look like this the

18:53

night before the first day of school one

18:56

i print out some back to school questionnaires

18:58

that questionnaires found on pinterest that ask

19:00

what grade they're going into who they're best

19:02

friends are they want to be when they grow up etc

19:05

and have the kids still them out and see

19:07

them from year to year to

19:10

then i measure and mark them on our door frame

19:12

ruler on the afternoon

19:14

when they get home from the first day of school

19:16

i decided once years ago to

19:18

always have the same snack waiting

19:20

for them dirt pudding with gummy

19:22

worms this is the only time of year

19:25

i ever make this particular desert to damn

19:27

it quote taste like going back to

19:29

school when my oldest son off to college

19:31

i couldn't resist i wrapped up a chocolate pudding

19:34

snack pack a pack of and

19:36

a pack gummy worms for him to unwrap on his birthday

19:38

of college he texted me that he loved

19:40

that how sweet

19:43

is this you guys it's such a simple

19:45

saying a beautiful use of

19:48

too lazy genius principles decide

19:50

once and build the right routine and

19:52

i love that it's kept going over the years

19:55

for rebecca now i want to remind

19:57

all of you that if don't have a tradition like this for

19:59

the first day school

19:59

or you want to buy kid is like

20:02

sixteen so what's the point is

20:04

your permission to do anyway

20:07

just because you don't start from the beginning

20:09

or he forgot a year or your kids still

20:11

too old now it doesn't mean

20:13

shouldn't do something to mark the beginning of the school year

20:15

is that there's to you

20:18

remember couple weeks ago weeks talked about seasonal

20:20

ceremonies and know don't lose

20:22

their power if you didn't begin doing them

20:24

from birth or whatever

20:26

just do what matters when

20:28

it matters and let go

20:31

of not having done it in the past so

20:34

thanks to rebecca for sharing this idea

20:36

and to for being kind to yourself as yourself listen

20:38

to it that is important to if

20:40

you want to be considered as lazy genius

20:42

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20:55

wait to hear your ideas alright

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guys that's it for today thank you so for being

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here and until next time be a genius

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