How To Be Lazy (and not feel bad about it)

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a lovely weekend. I had such a lazy weekend. I don’t think that’s a sentence I’ve EVER been able to say.

It was cold, rainy and miserable all day Saturday. I woke up early to workout at Uplift (relationship tip right here, workout while you’re boyfriend is still sleeping) and then Jeremy and I went to get brunch and stopped by this brewery in Brooklyn he wanted to check out.

On the drive back into Manhattan I declared that it was too icky to do anything else outside and therefore it would be a lazy day. I’m aware that the fact that I had already worked out, brunched and gone to Brooklyn, defeating the purpose of calling it a lazy day, but lounging around in my pajamas at 3:00PM on a Saturday with no where to be still felt lazy by my standards, and also pretty damn luxurious.

I feel self conscious even admitting that I was lazy, which is really sad because obviously we all deserve time to reset and recharge. Is it just me or has lazy become such a taboo word??

There are a ton of articles about the glorification of busy and I know I’m the poster child for “busy” at times. I’m sure a ton of you reading this can relate to how I feel– I always need to be productive because there’s only so many hours of the day to accomplish the never ending to do list.

I’m here to tell you that it’s okay to be lazy and spend your Saturday lounging around in pajamas, disconnected from your cellphone, watching Netflix comedy specials while eating delivery thai food instead of walking one block to eat at the restaurant. Even though it feels kind of gross and indulgent when it’s not what you’re used to, it’s not something to feel guilty about. It doesn’t feel productive, but in actuality resting and recharging is important too.

The key to being lazy without feeling bad about it is to give yourself permission to be lazy. There’s nothing worse than feeling guilty about not accomplishing your to-do list (like how I kept telling myself I would do laundry Friday… and it never happened) but if you give yourself permission to not tackle the to-do list, it feels a lot less guilty and shameful when you accomplish nothing of actual importance because you’re relaxing.

I know I won’t be able to be as lazy and carefree as I was this weekend every weekend, I swear sometimes I have a social life and leave my apartment, but in the upcoming weeks I’m going to make more of an effort to having some laziness during the weekend and time to recharge for the upcoming week.

Question- what are your tips for being “lazy” and not feeling bad about it?