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Hi, we are excited.

Very excited.

We are popping into your feeds today

to give you a special top of the year

Office Ladies announcement.

As of today, Office Ladies has expanded to be a network.

And we wanna tell you about the first podcast

joining the Office Ladies network.

It is a podcast called The Lazy Genius with Kendra Adachi.

join the Office Ladies network.

We wanted to share with you an excerpt from her podcast.

This week's episode is called

Starting Fresh When You Can't Start Over.

We hope that you'll give it a listen

and love it as much as we do.

We need some new words

when we feel this compulsion to start over.

I shared some of these words last January actually,

and I need the reminder just as much as anyone.

So we're gonna look at those words again.

The first word that will help us start fresh

instead of starting over is continue, continue.

Instead of beginning, continue.

Everything you do builds on what has come before.

You're living a beautiful, sometimes messy life,

and it's a continuation.

January does not have to be a restart.

It is not necessarily a new beginning.

Now, energetically, there are some really helpful things

about those feelings of January,

of the literal turning of the calendar,

but that does not require you to begin everything anew.

In fact, you can't, that takes so much work.

Instead, if you feel the pressure to begin something

that does not truly align with what matters to you,

simply continue, continue doing what you're doing,

knowing that you're not failing anything

by not starting over, by not beginning again,

just because it's January, continue.

You're really smart.

You're probably already doing a lot of great things

that don't need a reset.

They don't even need tinkering with, just continue.

And the places that you know what matters

and you know what works most of the time, continue.

The second word is tend.

Don't fix, tend.

And don't get me wrong, there are things that need fixing.

They need to be taken apart and put back together.

But usually that's stuff like toilets or an Ikea closet

that was not installed correctly.

We fix things.

We can't exactly fix life, but we sure do try, don't we?

We come at it like a certain part of our life

is a problem to solve and to fix

when really most of our lives need nurturing and tending.

They need compassion alongside correcting.

And when we compassionately correct

one small thing at a time, that is tending.

That's looking at what's there with kind eyes,

not going too fast and taking it one step at a time.

That is so much more sustainable

than continuously taking apart and putting back together

all the systems and processes and goals of your life.

So think about where you feel the need to fix.

And if instead you need to tend.

The third word is small.

I love small things.

I love small choices, small differences,

small steps, small problems.

That's why one of the 13 Lazy Genius Principles

is to start small.

The smaller something is, the easier it is to solve,

to tend to, to manage, to live with,

to incorporate into your life on a regular basis.

But January energy is big energy, right?

It's big swings, big systems, big changes.

And that's why we can't stick with anything.

We're starting with big problems

and big problems require big solutions.

I don't know about you,

but I don't have room for big solutions right now.

Life is beautifully unwieldy and inviting big systems

or big goals or big solutions into that is almost impossible.

And when those big things don't work and they won't,

I want to start over.

I want to call a mulligan and get to try again

so that what came before wasn't a failure.

Instead, let's start small,

like really, really embarrassingly small.

I told a story in my first book,

The Lazy Genius Way about how I started small with yoga.

I have terrible joints

as well as like a lot of frantic mental energy.

I call myself a caffeinated squirrel.

And consequently being a caffeinated squirrel

with hips and knees that are basically made of glass,

yoga is really good for me.

It's good for my joints and for my brain.

Well, years and years ago,

I knew this and tried to incorporate more yoga into my life,

but I could not make it work.

I couldn't get it to stick.

And I got so frustrated by that because it mattered to me.

Like yoga mattered to me for reasons that felt right

and good and aligned with tending to my body,

but I just couldn't seem to get into a rhythm at all.

And you know what I did?

I just kept restarting.

I kept restarting the commitment counter to zero

over and over again.

And that was also defeating.

So I tried a new approach.

I made doing yoga embarrassingly small.

I said that I would do one down dog a day,

one down dog a day.

If you're unfamiliar with yoga,

that's basically like bending over once a day

and sticking your butt in the air.

Some might argue that's not even yoga,

but it was so small that I did it.

I did this thing that mattered to me.

And because it was so small and doable,

over time I built on it.

And hear me, when I say over time,

I don't mean like days later.

I'm pretty sure I did one down dog a day

for weeks and weeks without much difference.

Some of those days I would do like a full sun salutation,

which still only takes like 60 seconds,

but I didn't change what the daily habit was

of one down dog a day for literal months.

But guess what?

I did yoga every day.

It was so small that it became part of my life

and my routine in a way that worked,

in a way that supported what mattered.

So your third word is small, even embarrassingly small.

Nothing is too small.

Don't start over.

Start fresh by starting small.

I just love it.

which I hope you do,

head over to the Lazy Genius podcast

wherever you listen to podcasts,

or you can find Kendra

at thelazygeniuscollective.com slash officeladies,

and we'll share a link in our Instagram stories as well.

Office Ladies Monday Motivation with Kendra.

We had the best conversation with her

and we can't wait to share it with you.

it's Kendra.

Woo-hoo, we're so excited to have you.