✦Wellbeing · 12 recordsReset after a hard year

For coming back from burnout, illness or a long stretch of just surviving. It is smaller than everything else here on purpose — the failure mode after a hard year is an ambitious plan abandoned in week two.

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Goal

Get back to steady Month 2

Not ambitious. Sleeping, moving, and being in touch with people again.

The basics Month 2

Sleep, food, daylight. Everything else waits.

  • Set a bedtime and keep it for a weekDay 7
  • Book the appointment I have been putting offDo firstWeek 2
  • Get outside every day for a weekDay 7

People Week 6

The thing that goes first and helps most.

  • Message one person I have lost touch withDay 5
  • Arrange to see somebody in personWeek 3

Routines

  • Get outsidedaily
  • Ten minutes of quietdaily
  • Talk to someone who is not at workweekly
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This is meant to be small

There is one goal and it is a gentle one, because the usual failure after a hard year is an ambitious plan abandoned in week two.

A week where you got outside most days and slept properly is a successful week. Add more only once this is boring.

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Reset after a hard year, answered.

Because the usual failure after a hard year is an ambitious plan abandoned in week two, which leaves somebody worse off than having no plan. Everything here is sized to be achievable on a bad week, not a good one.
Getting outside most days and sleeping properly. That is the whole bar, and it is set low on purpose — the point is to rebuild a floor rather than to make progress on anything.
Once this is boring. Boredom is the signal that the basics have stopped taking effort, and it is a much better trigger for expanding a plan than a good week or a burst of motivation.
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