By Kendra Adachi
WaterBrook, 2020
240 pages
Amazon Description:
The chorus of “shoulds” is loud. You should enjoy the moment, dream big, have it all, get up before the sun, track your water consumption, go on date nights, and be the best. Or maybe you should ignore what people think, live on dry shampoo, be a negligent PTA mom, have a dirty house, and claim your hot mess like a badge of honor.
It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed by the mixed messages of what it means to live well.
Kendra Adachi, the creator of the Lazy Genius movement, invites you to live well by your own definition and equips you to be a genius about what matters and lazy about what doesn’t. Everything from your morning routine to napping without guilt falls into place with Kendra’s thirteen Lazy Genius principles, including:
• Decide once
• Start small
• Ask the Magic Question
• Go in the right order
• Schedule rest
Discover a better way to approach your relationships, work, and piles of mail. Be who you are without the complication of everyone else’s “shoulds.” Do what matters, skip the rest, and be a person again.
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So here’s the thing. I’m pretty much a big ol’ fan girl when it comes to Kendra Adachi and everything she does. I listen to her podcast weekly, follow her on social media, and pay attention to what she says because her message about naming what matters is sooo helpful and freeing.
The Lazy Genius Way is not just another self-help book. Kendra actually gives you principles, some ways of seeing things, that help you decide what you need to make your life better/easier, rather than giving you a list of rules. I hear what you are thinking — concrete to-do lists are so helpful! And I agree, but the approach she takes guides you through making a list that fits your life, instead of telling you to do what she does. And let me just tell, you she’s funny. You will laugh while you rethink your life and priorities.
Kendra shares lots of real examples from her own life to help illustrate how these principles come into play, and I was gratified to realize that I have been a lazy genius in a some ways for a long time, I just didn’t know how to label what I was doing. A few principles that she shares that really made so much sense to me are starting small, asking the magic question, and batching things.
I seriously recommend The Lazy Genius Way for literally everyone, no matter what season of life you are in and I think it would make a fantastic gift!