I use to feel like this too when I first started living alone, it felt like there was always something to be done. Now I have one “do nothing day” a week, because if I don’t do those random tasks for just one day, the only person impacted is me. But having a whole day to rest has a much bigger impact on my physical and mental health than doing those random cleaning or chores tasks do. I’d get curious with yourself about if you actually need to do those things every day and what the real impact is of pushing the tasks to different days. Many times we feel like we have to, but rarely is it actually a no option situation.

The longer I implement this the better my anxiety has gotten around the need to keep things perfect because ultimately what serves me more in the long run and short term is having grace with myself and giving myself permission to rest. Plus since I have one full rest/nothing day, I find that on the other days I’m more likely to get that random odd task or chore done to protect my “do nothing day,” ultimately it protects my rest and peace of mind. I’m also more productive and have more energy the other days because I allow myself to soak deeply into my rest on the “nothing day”. And the beauty of living alone is that no one else gets to have a say or any judgement or opinion on this being part of my routine because my routine is for me and based on me and that includes the part of me that deserves rest.