We don't need more productivity hacks
Burnout isn't a time-management problem, and another app won't fix it.
Many people who feel exhausted are already very organised. They have the planners, the routines and the apps. What they don't have is any space.
When exhaustion is treated as a scheduling problem, we keep optimising a life that simply has too much in it. The answer is usually less, not better.
Ask what you could stop doing this month. Then protect the space you get back, and don't fill it with something else.
Try this
- Write down three things you could stop doing.
- Leave one evening a week completely unplanned.
- Notice when you reach for your phone to avoid a feeling.
General information, not personal medical advice. If something worries you, talk to your doctor. In an emergency in Bulgaria or the EU, call 112.