I get lazy in the summer.
There.
I said it.
It general I do have sloth tendencies- someone used the word the other day procastireading, and I thought it was pretty perfect. I have TOTALLY left the dishes in the sink, or didn’t clean the toilet because I wanted to finish a chapter, or start a new visual adventure… My house is never winning a Good Housekeeping seal of approval…
But…
For the most part I’m reasonably productive. I make a to do list and I do.
But in the summer…
I use the humidity as an excuse. Oh- I can’t go to the gym because it’s too humid. I can’t dust because it’s too humid. I can’t do the laundry because it’s too humid. I can’t get out of the chair to get the remote because it’s too humid…
Then it becomes, well I don’t want to run the air conditioner because of expense/environment, that I have to move across the room to turn on the unit…
And I know that these are excuses. And sort of lame excuses. Yet, I still find it hard to accomplish anything in July.
Do you have a period of the year when you just can’t get motivated? Which season is your Achilles heel? How do you get through it?
Or…
Do you hum along at the exact same speed all year? If so, what’s the secret?
Waking up on the Wrong Side of 50 
Winter is the time that I am less motivated. I use the dark as an excuse to be on the couch under a blanket reading or watching TV. If it is night at 5pm that means 5pm is when I stop for the day.
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I totally get that. You just want to be comforted
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I’m also less motivated and have less energy in the summer. The heat, the humidity, and the long bright days sap my energy like nothing else.
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Right? I really could just sit in a comfy chair with a glass of iced tea and stare
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I’ve been struggling to get up in the morning, and all I want to do is sleep! 🙈
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Yeah…totally get it…
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Summer’s my bad season as I suffer from hay fever and need to take anti-histamine. Unfortunately, they make me – if not actually drowsy, decidedly sloth-like. When it’s over, I can feel the burst of energy coming through. I love autumn/fall ❤
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I’m so happy at this moment in the season!
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Light makes me energetic, dark sleepy. I’m go go go during the long, light summer days and much less active in winter once the time change happens. In winter, when the kids need rides to rinks at 8pm, it feels like an interruption to my sloth time… 😉
I have no tips. I just suffer through it. 🙂
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Yeah…we get through it one minute at a time
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Generally I’d say it happens more in the winter but realistically I go through periods of time throughout the year that are full of zero motivation. I do like your analogy to a sloth. I use slugs as my descriptive during these times, but sloths provide a much less slimy image.
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Sloths are cute… 🦥
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I excel at being a sloth year-round. I am, after all, a proud SLACKER. That being said, spring slows me down to a crawl– all those allergens in the air.
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Allergies…totally understand that
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In Texas, I find the summer’s heat to be VERY wearing. I usually have to walk on the treadmill instead of outdoors, which isn’t nearly as enjoyable. In Michigan, the lack of sunshine and LONG winters got to be a grind. Weather and sunlight definitely have big effects!
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I do get a little blue in February…the cold, the wind…bleh…
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Exactly.
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My new favorite word is procastireading
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Isn’t that the best word!
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I don’t like humidity–but I do like the longer amounts of sunlight in summer. I love fall—but part of me just wants to hibernate during winter and not wake up until it is spring again. Give me some good shows to binge on, comfort foods and some nice blankets/throws and I am set.
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Nothing wrong with that scenario!
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It’s the heat for me. With plus 100 degrees I’m inside all the time and that makes me less motivated. That’s why we head to the beach for extended vacations.
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I totally get that
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👍🏼
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Summer is the same for me. My ideal temps are in the 60’s, so summer temps with high humidity give me zero ambition to do anything. This summer was warmer than usual and my garden was greatly neglected. Inside I don’t want to move too much, even though I have AC, just so don’t I have the sensation of sweat. I’m actually most active in the fall…go figure. So I can totally relate.
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Humidity crushes me
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I’m the same way in the summer. I feel like fall is my season, and then I hibernate again until spring arrives.
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I love spring and fall
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When I first moved to Oregon it was the dull gray that I struggled with, and struggled badly. Today, that’s not the case, yet, the winter can still provide one many reasons to excuse a lack of action. 😅
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When it’s grey every day it’s hard
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Before I retired from teaching after more than 3 decades, summer was my lazy time of the year. After working long hours creating lessons and writing grants and staying hours beyond my regular school day, it was a delight not to have to get up super early or go to bed early in retirement . I took advantage of those lazy hazy days of summer. Now especially living in S Florida, one human and hot day runs into the next. If I feel good I’m energetic. If not I’m lazy whenever I want to be!
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Works for me!
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August is always a bad month for me…..I feel sad that summer is over again, but this year even Sept. has been depressing. I seem to have lost my muse….
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PS. I generally feel more energetic in the winter, even though it’s colder and I hate winter. I think it’s in my DNA but hot weather and especially the humidity just makes me feel lethargic.
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I read a book recently, Wintering, all about how restorative winter can be…I get it
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I’ve been having a tough two weeks…I get it and know I’m thinking of you
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Thanks LA! Sending good thoughts to you too.
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💗💗
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I can’t say that my lag really relates to any particular time of year. Recently I was waiting to hear about certain thinks to happen in my career and no news just got me in a funk. Hard to do anything productive, so I just tried to enjoy the down time as much as possible.
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That’s fair. What do they say…the waiting is the hardest part…
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Procrastreading! I love it and it absolutely describes me. But for me it is the whole year not just summer.
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Yeah…I get it
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Winter… more specifically, right after Christmas!
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Yup. I totally get that. There’s only winter ahead of you…
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Yes!!!!!!!🥹
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I was surprised to see how dominant summer was as the season of laziness. Perhaps related to climate change. Might this be putting the usual draggy effects of summer heat and humidity on steroids?
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I think extremes just get to people. Isn’t there an old song about hazy lazy days of summer?
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yes there is!
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