22 things I won’t be doing this year as I continue working from home
1 min readJan 1, 2022
- Scrolling my phone before I get out of bed
- Checking email before I have at least half a cup of coffee
- Eating breakfast standing up
- Eating breakfast sitting down, while working
- Working without a midday break
- Letting the day get dark without going outside first
- Letting the day get dark without showering
- Doing any amount of work before I’ve brushed my teeth
- Failing to budget time for empty weekday museum visits
- Failing to budget time for empty weekday matinees
- Failing to budget time for weekday ocean swims, weather permitting
- Not getting a password saver thingy and using it
- Buying new pants
- Ditto socks!
- Working from bed
- Eating from bed
- Taking Zoom meetings from bed, even if it isn’t obvious (hint: it’s always obvious)
- Further destroying my neck with the whole laptop-on-pillow-on-lap setup
- Not doing laundry during the workday
- Not setting-it-and-forgetting-it (aka Instant Pot meal prep) during the workday
- Listening to podcasts that I want to enjoy but simply cannot
- Making 22-item lists; on any given day, two tasks will usually suffice
