The PLAN Quotes

“Laziness, especially in this context, is not bad. In fact, part of being a wholehearted, integrated person is embracing that you can’t do A-level work in every part of your life. You must actively choose to let some things be easy or lazy so that you can focus on what matters the most.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“Rest is not a reward. It’s a right. A requirement. Please stop waiting to rest until you have more time to do it.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“This is when you bleed. A delight. But this is also when you are slower, you retreat, and you easily notice what’s happening in and around you. Winter is your model. In winter, nature slows down. It rests. It moves inward. And when you are in your menstrual phase, so do you. As much as it’s in your control, during this phase each month, don’t be overly social. Do mindless, slow tasks like paying bills, folding laundry, and filling out spreadsheets. Make comforting dump-and-stir dinners. Go to bed earlier on these days and take advantage of the rest your body naturally craves. Don’t expect a lot of creativity to come out of you. It’s on a break right now, and that’s expected and part of your rhythm.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“What is your realistic output today? Some days, you just don’t have enough gas in the tank, and as much as you’re able, honor that.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“Most people cannot and, frankly, should not approach every day the same way. That’s a recipe for unmet expectations and exhaustion.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“What do you need to accept today? Because you live in a production-driven society, low-energy days often lead to shame because you can’t do what you think you should. I don’t want that for you. Instead, learn to accept the reality of what’s in front of you.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“Do not judge every day against your best day.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“if getting ready for our future comes at the expense of our present, we will always feel discontent. We will continuously struggle to truly live our lives because we’re not really here. Preparation cannot be our primary focus.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice—quite the subversive herself—said she’d “always lived by the adage, ‘Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“But if getting ready for our future comes at the expense of our present”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“It’s not that we don’t have time to invest in communities and relationships. It’s that our time doesn’t line up.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“When you notice without kindness, nothing good comes of it. You are judgmental toward others. You are ashamed of yourself. You resent your season of life. You compare yourself to strangers on the internet. Honestly, judgment doesn’t notice anything that matters.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“In short, be more flexible with what you expect of yourself each day. You are always living from a shifting spectrum of energy and resources, and I want you to kindly and wisely account for that shift. Your palette of “colors” is dynamic, not static, and that’s an exceptional thing.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“Our culture was not built for, nor does it adequately support, a woman’s variable hormones, whether you have a typical or an irregular cycle, are on birth control, or have gone through menopause. The way a woman’s body uniquely works matters, and I want it to get its spotlight.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“The most transformative thing you can do is regularly name what matters to you in the season you’re in.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“My guess is that even if you've checked off your list, you've checked out on yourself.”
― Kendra Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“It’s only by facing our finitude that we can step into a truly authentic relationship with life.”[1]”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“Life is a painting, not a puzzle.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch what itches.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“This season. This body. This family. This crisis. This financial situation. This transition. This holiday. This school project. This work deadline. This tantrum. This headache. This meal. This walk. This deep breath. This moment.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“When we are integrated, we compassionately love our true selves and seek to live smack-dab in the center of who we know ourselves to be.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“This is our biggest misstep with lists in general. Just because things are written one after the other doesn’t mean they’re connected or will require the same level of commitment, energy, or decision-making from you. They were just written at the same time.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“What worked and what didn’t work? What filled me up and what emptied me out? What’s one thing I know for sure moving forward?”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“When you feel too overwhelmed to make a decision, Pick One. Literally, just pick one thing on your list. Or add a new thing that you know you can do to honor your own humanity, like “take a nap.” You are in charge of your list. Your list is not in charge of you.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“You’re not measuring life by greatness, success, or completed goals. In fact, I personally don’t want to “measure” my life at all. I want to live it. You’re likely the same.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“Decide once is one of the original thirteen Lazy Genius principles, and it is what it sounds like: Make one decision one time about one thing, and then keep doing that thing until it doesn’t work anymore.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“Adjustments are small not only in scope but also, potentially, in duration. You can make an adjustment in your PLAN that is for just today or just this week, knowing full well it won’t stay like that forever.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“When you’re struggling to adjust with small steps, these three mindsets can help bring balance again: Match your expectations to the energy you’re willing to give. Now isn’t forever. You’re allowed to change your mind.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“The more you patiently take small steps, whether in your work, your hobbies, your relationships, or your home, the more you experience how trustworthy they are. Small steps can be trusted. Small adjustments lead to true change.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

“We simply do not adjust well, and we definitely don’t trust those adjustments when they are small. Incremental adjustment is not a skill we practice, and it’s not a skill the industry widely promotes.”
― Kendra J. Adachi, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius