OPEN POST: How to Have a Low-Key First Week of 2026!

• Cancel one thing that you have decided never needs to happen.
• Eat something warm and delicious at least once a day.
• Use lamps all week. Overhead lighting is aggressive.

• Don’t make any major life decisions before noon, and it doesn't even have to be in your time zone. 
• Wear the softest clothes, even if no one sees you.
• Let emails sit. Nothing important happens this week.
• Drink water like it’s part of the new you. May as well start off hydrated.

• Rewatch something comforting instead of watching something new and laborious. 
• Clean in 10-minute segments at a time, and then decide whether to continue.
• Go to bed early at least once without announcing it.
• Ignore productivity advice entirely.

• Take a walk without tracking it, even 5 minutes counts.

• Let the week be awkward. It always is.
• January is a suggestion, not a mandate.
• Choose simple food over impressive food.

• Avoid conversations that start with “So this year I’m going to…”
• Buy nothing except food, comfort, and things that make you happy.
• Say “I’ll think about it” and mean later...or never.

• Let the house be quiet. You don’t need background noise.
• Remember: easing in counts as moving forward.

Trivia about the above video: T.S Monk is Thelonious Monk's son.