Maybe you like me know what it feels like when you hear the siren call of self-improvement.

It could be in that brightly colored corner of an airport bookstore or from an Instagram video targeted to your specific age and maybe also the fact that you just

Googled a Kienwa recipe so you definitely need a set of Pep Talks and meal plans

geared to high protein eating. I roll my eyes at some of

this and then I also click and read and sometimes buy. They seem to know I want to do better in some ways and how I hope

that might make me feel better. I also appreciate the opposite kind of pepoc and Cultural Gurudom, the kind that tells me

you are just right the way you are, which on days when I'm feeling a little less pumped,

gives me permission to keep my shirt untucked and to not brush my hair.

It is the rare self-improvement universe where I can feel both things at once, that the ways I want

to make changes I can and also that I can be kind to myself

while I try. Kendra Adachi does this. She was on the show back in December 2022 when we talked about her life philosophy,

about being a lazy genius, a genius about the things that matter, and lazy about the things that don't.

She has a new book out that really, since I read it,

has reorganized how I think about how I plan and organize my time.

And time management, let me remind you, is how we end up spending our

entire lives. Kendra's new book is called The Plan, How to Man your time like a lazy genius.

Kendra leads us through how to prepare and be honest about what we're really after to set goals,

and then how to be flexible on how we try to meet them and allow life to get in the way and adjust as needed.

It's the opposite of what she calls big black trash bag energy,

when you get overwhelmed by all the mess and

distraction in your life and frantically try to clear everything out in order to

finally live your best life. I have tried this approach with a big black trash bag. It doesn't really work.

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