Letting Your Day Off Turn Into a Day of Chores

The one day you have free from work fills up anyway — laundry, groceries, cleaning, appointments you have been postponing all week. By evening you have not worked, technically, but you also have not rested. You just traded one kind of obligation for another.

Chores are real and necessary, but they are not rest, and a day off with none of the second is not actually a day off. Protect at least a few hours that belong to nothing but you, and do the chores around them, not instead of them.