In “The Plan”, Kendra Adachi helps readers (esp women) understand the external forces (menstrual cycle, societal expectations on women) that impact their ability to manage their time well . Adachi also give practical guidance for planning our your time efficiently and effectively.

In the end, this book wasn’t for me. Not because it wasn’t well written, but because it made me realize I do a pretty good job with time management.

I really enjoyed this book and finished it quickly. The female specific advice was extremely helpful. Time management from a female perspective is long overdue.

Kendra Adachi is the like the big sister or best friend you wish you had. She's funny, honest, and wise. This book is no exception. She lays out why all those time management books haven't worked for us women in the past, and here's other ideas that might work for us. I will need a hard copy so I can mark it up and try her strategies. This book is well worth reading--so many good ideas and strategies! Keep these books, coming, Kendra--I love everything Lazy Genius!

I absolutely loved this book!! I sped through it and now want to go back and reread it a bit slower!! I love how Kendra breaks the book down into three sections: Principles, Strategies, and Pep Talks!! I love how she talks about paying attention to our energy during different times of the month according to our menstrual cycle!! I've always struggled with trying to plan the season ahead and I'm so excited to use what I learned in this book to do just that! I'll definitely be reading this one over and over again!!

Kendra is the big sister I never had. I love her energy and tone throughout the book. She is inspiring without being overwhelming, and she's great at calming the "Big Black Trash Bag Energy" that often comes with a new outlook. This is definitely the book she was meant to write, and I'm so glad it's in the world.

The PLAN by Kendra J. Adachi is a refreshingly practical guide to organizing your life with intention and purpose. Adachi’s approach is both relatable and accessible, offering readers clear steps to create a plan that aligns with their values and goals. What sets this book apart is its focus on flexibility and grace—recognizing that life doesn’t always go according to plan, and that’s okay. With a blend of humor, wisdom, and actionable advice, The PLAN empowers readers to take control of their time and priorities without feeling overwhelmed. It’s an inspiring resource for anyone looking to live more intentionally.

Kendra has such helpful Big Sister energy. Her approach to time management is life changing, especially for women who are chronically overlooked in the productivity genre. I loved this book and learned so much. I will definitely be referring back to it periodically as I enter new life seasons.

As a stereotypical overachieving “geriatric millennial,” I’m a sucker for a time management, self improvement book and I LOVE The Lazy Genius philosophy. Naturally, I wanted to read this immediately. What started out as I thought sorta slow/familiar…then of course Kendra pulls out the stops for us. Timing is everything and we can leverage it to our advantage- time of day, time of year, time of the MONTH! But also our energy… brilliant chapter on our period cycles and leaning into how our bodies feel. I will read this again and it’ll speak to me in a different way. She puts words to thoughts and feelings that I didn’t even know I needed to clarify and as Kendra says…name what matters. This is a gem!

I devoured this book. I feel seen.

I love time management books and just like Kendra, I love the rush you get while reading. But then the book is over and you’re just exhausted. Applying the new knowledge feels overwhelming. Not so with this book! Immediately I feel softness towards myself and I love the invitation “notice”. The framework for big energy days versus low energy days are eye opening and feel like they would be helpful.

Her friendly tone that I love in her podcast really helped this book feel like a hug. That I’m not doing anything wrong and that “of course you’re overwhelmed” notion. As sensitive people any number of things can be lingering under the surface. Her mentioning of thinking about Thanksgiving in June made no sense until she explained why. And I wonder how many times I’ve done the same thing. Something I’m thinking about is just a symptom that I’m concerned about something entirely different that actually IS important!

I can hardly wait to get my hands on the final printed copy. I will be grabbing highlighters and tabbing this one up for sure. Since I read it so quickly, I’m excited to go back in and practice these concepts going forward.

Thank you Kendra!

I really enjoyed reading Kendra Adachi's The Plan. I listen to her podcast, so I could hear her voice in my head as I read. She has a nice, natural writing style which makes you feel like a concerned friend is speaking directly to you. This book is hard to categorize. It seems marketed as an organizational book, teaching you how to manage your time. However, it feels more like a self-help book in that outlook/philosophy is everything. And her philosophy is wonderful! Instead of planning your time based on where we want to go, Adachi counsels us to plan our time based on where we already are. This is a simple, yet stark, contrast to most advice books. Adachi fleshes out her method utilizing principles and strategies and finishes off her book with pep talks. While I definitely enjoyed the book and will recommend it to others, there are a few minor things that keep it from being a five-star book. First, I found the insertion of white male privilege a bit forced. While she makes a statistical case that most time management books are written by men, I didn't see the need to bring in race. Along these same lines, while I appreciate Adachi addressing the realities of the menstrual cycle and how it affects energy, I feel that her philosophy could and should be adopted by men as well as women. So some of the writing felt exclusionary to men for no reason. Finally, I was a tad disappointed in the pep talks. I wanted them to feel like hugs; give me permission to restart tomorrow. Instead they had just a bit of a bootstrap energy that didn't seem to match with the rest of the book.

I'm a long-time listener of <I>The Lazy Genius Podcast</I> and overall a big fan of Adachi's previous two books, and when I heard that she was coming out with a productivity and time management book, I was pumped.

What worked for me:
- Surprisingly, the pep talks. I'm not really a pep talk person but I think Adachi has a way of distilling an experience in a way that feels direct yet expansive.
- The recaps at the end of the chapters

What didn't work for me:
- I realized part way through the book that time management oriented around menstrual cycles and social issues aren't really how I want to approach time. Even though this is a completely valid view, this point of view just didn't resonate with me. That's a me thing so I think other readers will benefit from this.

Overall this is a great addition to the oeuvre of time management books, a subgenre that has been largely dominated by men.

I'd recommend this to fans of <I>Rest Is Resistance</I>, <I>The Good Enough Job</I>, and <I>How to Keep House While Drowning</I> but would probably steer fans of Laura Vanderkam and Cal Newport away.

What makes Kendra Adachi's time management program isn't her method. Much of what she covers has been said before - although Adachi presents it in a fresh and highly entertaining way. What does make this book stand out is that it's written by a woman for women. Finally, a productivity expert who understands the concept of Emotional Labor!

I felt seen.

Then, to make me feel even more understood, she discusses the monthly ebb and flow of hormonal energy that women experience. You know, those days when you are filled with brain fog and can't get anything done vs those days when you could conquer the world.

Adachi isn't kidding when she says this is a time management book that understands what it's like to be a wife, mother, or simply female. I absolutely loved the discussion of "seasons" when it comes to productivity - a reminder that for many women, life can often overtake our best-laid plans. Her plan is more about managing stress as it is getting stuff done.

It's a quick, stressless read. It's definitely worth the time and money.

Thank you to #ConvergentBooks and #NetGalley for the digital ARC of #ThePlan. The opinions expressed here are entirely my own.

I got this from the publisher (unrequested). I wasn't familiar with the "lazy genius" concept so I was intrigued. This is a simple to follow and implement plan for woman to manage their daily life - from home & family to work and beyond. I'll be checking out some of her other work.

My full review of this book follows and it contains many words, but the short version requires only four: What the heck, Kendra?

As a longtime fan of all things Lazy Genius, I was thrilled to hear that Kendra Adachi had written another book. On time management! Specifically for women! At last!

But The PLAN is, unfortunately, a disappointment in several ways. The first thing that stood out was the uncharacteristically negative tone Kendra used when talking about how the world is set up in favor of “the patriarchy”. From a person who makes a living, in part, admonishing people to ‘access kindness’ (including many times in this very book), her feminist rage seems ironic, if not hypocritical. But the thing that really annoyed me was the patronizing way she belabored the point throughout the book, as if she had just discovered sexism and needed to explain it with crayons and small words to the rest of womankind.

The second thing I noticed as I read was the lack of a clearly defined audience. I’m not sure who this book was written for and I don’t think Kendra was clear on that, either. The first words of the book are literally, “I wrote this book to help you in any life stage.” Yet very little of the advice applied to my childless, perimenopausal life and I’m hearing the same from other women in a variety of life circumstances who have read the book. She seemed to be aiming for the incredibly broad target audience of ‘women in general’, which is great for maximizing sales, but not helpful for readers seeking actual help.

The final main problem I had with this book was the way the information somehow managed to be too much and not enough at the same time, like a big bowl of alphabet soup that fills you up for a few minutes, but leaves you hungry soon after and doesn’t provide much nutrition. There is a lot (and I do mean a lot) of repetition, and the book is padded out with an overwhelming, chaotic collection of acronyms, lists, and sketches.

In the first section of this book, Kendra makes a big promise: nothing short of a revolution in time management. But the rest of the book doesn’t deliver, offering instead largely generic advice, forced acronyms, and information recycled from past episodes of the Lazy Genius podcast. This book was a great idea that deserved a lot more time and thought than was given to it. I rate it 2 1/2 stars. I highly recommend Lazy Genius content, but suggest you skip this book and look for it in Kendra's previous books and her podcast.

The Plan uses psychological principles to help women understand what truly needs to be done and then how to get it done. This isn't a quick fix as in just a bunch of planner pages and how to use them. This requires introspection so you can know yourself, and work your strengths and weaknesses to get the best out of your time at any moment.

OUtstanding--I am a longtime listener of Kendra's and was so excited to see this book come out. This is, indeed, the time management tool that's lacking and Kendra's unique insight on what it means to be a women managing time is well worth the time and the read.

I follow Kendra on Instagram and dip in and out of her podcast, and I'd heard a little about this book when she announced it, so I was excited when I got a copy of it before publication from Netgalley. It's a compassionate approach to productivity specifically geared toward women. It acknowledges the heavy load most women are shouldering while still being hopeful, and her framework for planning is adaptable to many situations and seasons of life.

Kendra has long been the person that has helped me organize my life. The Plan was a natural continuation of her previous books and podcast. I hope that she continues to get the praise she deserves!

I will admit that I started this book thinking we were gonna get preachy and annoying, but I found it to be the opposite. Kendra Adachi calls out some pretty valid challenges women have when we plan, and how we can't plan, for everything. I appreciated humor, levity, and recognition in my own challenges, and I appreciate the tips.

Thanks to Netgalley, Convergent Books, and the author for the ARC.

This book is tailored to women, which fills an interesting gap in other time management books. I was both surprised and delighted at how obvious one strategy is that provides guidance and perhaps permission for a schedule based on the time of the month versus time of day. I also appreciated leaning into the “now” of seasonality rather than the “upward future” of other books. I am eager to apply some of the strategies to my own life. The author’s tone is very much her own conversational voice, so if you like this book, I recommend her podcast and other books.

Thank you NetGalley and Convergent Books for this advanced copy. All opinions are my own.