3 Ways to Get Sh*t Done During the Pandemic

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With a new year comes resolutions, goals, projects, and the to-do’s you didn’t do during the pandemic because, well, there was a pandemic and the inequities that followed behind. Everything felt overwhelming, on top of the tumult of the world around us. And, if we’re honest with ourselves, it still feels that way.

Sometimes we forget that to get sh*t done in challenging times (and even non-challenging times), we might not want to take the standard route of creating priorities, buying a planner, or waking up ten minutes earlier every day.

Here are three ways you can get sh*t done during the pandemic that might surprise you.

1. Take more naps.

Yes, you read the right. The stress many of us have experienced due to isolation, new COVID-19 spikes, vaccine anxiety, white supremacy, and presidential trauma is exhausting. Continuing to check off items on the to-do list while everything around us feels like it’s crumbling can make us feel like we are moving slower, and not in a way that feels restorative.

What’s restorative? Taking naps. The Nap Ministry, which reminds everyone about the importance of rest through its mission, and on Instagram and Twitter, has a new hotline where you can get a recorded rest message. Just call 1–833-LUV-NAPS. I swear, I tried it…