How To Have A Balanced, Burnout-Free Year: 7 Themed Days To Add To Your Calendar

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Dec 25, 2025

Discover effective ways to manage your time with seven unique themed days! Learn about Trash Can Day for intentional rest, Backburner Day to tackle neglected tasks, and Action Day to transform your ideas into reality. Embrace Frog Swallow Day to face those annoying chores and Content Day to bring your saved concepts to life. Sarah shares her structured weekly schedule, including dedicated days for appointments and fun activities. With practical tools like Toggle for tracking and Siri Reminders for organization, create a balanced, burnout-free year!

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Put It On The Calendar

Schedule non-negotiable time on your calendar for rest and priorities.
If you don’t schedule it, it won’t happen; allow one-week reschedules only.

ADVICE

Schedule A Full Rot Day

Add a monthly or quarterly Trash Can Day to fully rest and do nothing.
Use the day to rot, read fiction, sleep, and refuse work to reset your brain.

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Tackle Backburner Tasks

Reserve Backburner Days to complete important but non-urgent business tasks.
Use the day to tidy inboxes, redesign freebies, update workflows, and reduce overwhelm.

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If it's not on the Google Calendar, it doesn't exist.

And yes, that includes things like rest, learning, life admin tasks, and frog-swallowing!

In this episode, I’m recommending seven themed days you can add to your calendar so you can finally get your life together in 2026. We're talking trash can days (for rotting), back burner days (for all that shit you've been putting off), action days (for finally making your ideas real), and more. I'm also sharing my exact weekly schedule that keeps me from squirreling all over town and, on top of all that, my favorite tools to stay on track.

TOPICS & TANGENTS

— Back-burner tasks are sapping your energy

— Stop letting your ideas die in your notes app

— Frog Swallow Day and why Jamie's still driving around with New York plates in Arizona

— My 2026 goal of going to all my doctor’s appointments (everybody clap, please!)

— My weekly schedule: BTL Mondays, Bean Water Cafe Tuesdays, Client Wednesdays, Call Thursdays, and Fun Fridays

— Toggle tracking every second of your whole ass life

— Getting a Brick so you stop refreshing Stripe at 10 p.m.

— The Siri reminders ecosystem

— Why you need a to-do wish list

POINT OF THE STORY

If you don't schedule it, it won't happen. Balance doesn’t magically appear when you're less busy — it's something you actively create by protecting time for rest, growth, and the things that matter.

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