Kendra Adachi on Compassionate Time Management and the Productivity Industrial Complex

I said I was going to take this month off from the show, but then, Kendra Adachi’s brilliant book The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius found me, and I couldn’t be selfish to you lovely listeners and keep it to myself. I really do believe books meet you where you are, and The PLAN certainly met me where I was (and still am). I am obsessed with time management, productivity, life hacks, life optimization — but I was shocked to learn in Kendra’s book, which came out October 8, that a full 93 percent of time management books are written by men! In today’s conversation, Kendra explains why that matters, and why we need a different voice at the table. Kendra writes in the book “The problem isn’t you” when it comes to time management, and that “It’s not your lack of dedication, consistency, or motivation. It’s not because you haven’t started the right habit or taken the right online course. It’s because the current productivity paradigm doesn’t work for women. It’s that simple. The advice you’re getting is for men by men, and women are just expected to make it work.” In today’s episode we talk about the productivity industrial complex, her method of compassionate time management, what a “Lazy Genius” is anyway, the four components of the PLAN (which is an acronym!), and perhaps most meaningful for me, how time management looks different in different seasons, and to embrace the season we’re in and what time management in this particular season looks like. There’s so much good here, and here to walk us through it all is Kendra Adachi, who is a New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, and now, The PLAN, which is a New York Times bestseller! And rightfully so. She hosts the Lazy Genius Podcast and, through her compassionate time management philosophy, believes that we should stop doing it all for the sake of doing what matters. She has a husband, three kids, and a great message.   The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius by Kendra Adachi