Don’t Make Any More Plans For the Rest of the Year

You’ve heard of No New Friends — now try No New Plans

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Here are some things I’d like to get done before the end of the year. I would like to bake cookies to give to my neighbors and make these delightfully moreish drinking snacks for my friends. I would like re-caulk my bathtub. I would like to read several of the books stacked on my nightstand. I would like to attend a wreath-making workshop. I would like to make my garden plans for late winter and early spring.

These are things that I know will bring me some measure of joy or satisfaction, and help me start 2022 feeling rested and good about the year ahead. The other day, I realized that in order to actually have time to do these things, I can’t make any more plans for the rest of the year.

And honestly, I can’t think of a better idea.

Now, if you are the type of person who is eager to use this holiday season to make up for social gatherings lost over the last year and a half, then go for it. This post probably isn’t for you, and I hope you have fun, truly. But if you’re anything like me — and I know you’re all out there—you may be missing the slow place of early Covid life (though not the fear and terror of the pre-vaccine era) and wondering how to get some of that back. Then I’m here to tell…