I’m a Lazy Person Who Rejects 99% of Self-Help Tips. Here’s the One Trick that Kept Me Productive, Even in 2020.

How to salvage your goals and dreams from the dumpster fire that is this year.

Even those of us who were physically healthy in 2020 have had a solid half-year of letting ourselves off the hook:

I’m not in a place to write my book/ do my art/ work out/ be productive, because pandemic. {cue soft, Stuart Smalley voice} And that’s ooookay.

Sure, we started off thinking we were going to do big things during lockdown — write songs, write a novel, learn Greek — but most of this year became an extended emotional sick day. A big ol’ doctor’s note not to do anything hard, because reality is hard enough.

(And hey, as someone who milked mononucleosis to get out of most of 11th grade, I’m no stranger to the love of an ongoing excuse to do diddly-squat.)

Welp, looks like the pandemic isn’t going anywhere for a while. Winter is coming. Covid spikes. More quarantine? Who knows what the next six months or even full year will bring, but it’s time to face it:

The freeze on our membership to the Productive Humans Club is over. Grace period’s up.