Not Broken. Just Tired.

Not Broken. Just Tired.

Something stopped working.

Not suddenly.
Not catastrophically.

You didn’t fall apart.
You just slowed down.

Things that used to be manageable now feel heavy. Decisions stack up. Tasks linger. Motivation doesn’t arrive on time anymore, if it arrives at all.

At some point, you start wondering if this means something is wrong with you.

It usually doesn’t.

Most people who end up here are not broken.

They are not deficient.
They are not failing at life.

They are tired in a way that sleep doesn’t fix.

Tired means your capacity has been overdrawn.

It means you’ve been responding—showing up, coping, adjusting—for longer than your energy can support. It means your limits were treated as flexible, and then ignored.

This kind of tiredness rarely looks dramatic.

It looks like:

• Avoidance
   
• Indecision
   
• A loss of ambition
   
• Irritability
   
• Doing the minimum and still feeling behind
   

These are not moral failures.

They are what conservation looks like.

When capacity drops, the system narrows. It resists. It protects what little energy remains.

That is not dysfunction.
That is adaptation.

Most advice assumes you are underperforming.

Try harder.
Be more disciplined.
Fix your mindset.
Optimize your habits.

That logic only works when the problem is effort.

When the problem is exhaustion, pressure makes things worse.

Self-improvement becomes self-surveillance.
Motivation turns into accusation.

Tiredness hardens into shame.

A common fear is that easing up means giving up.

That if you stop pushing, everything will slide.
That wanting less is the same as failing.

It isn’t.

Reducing pressure is not quitting.
It is recalibration.

You are allowed to:

• Want less from your days
   
• Move more slowly
   
• Choose adequacy on purpose
   
• Stop maintaining versions of yourself that cost too much
   

None of this requires a breakdown.
None of it requires permission.

Sometimes the explanation is simple:

You’ve been carrying too much for too long.

Slackertime does not exist to fix you.

It assumes you are already capable—and already tired.

The goal here is not optimization.

It is sustainability.

These pages are meant to help you:

• Spend energy deliberately
   
• Reduce unnecessary effort
   
• Build a life that asks less without collapsing
   

If that feels like relief rather than defeat, you are in the right place.

You are not broken.

You are tired.

And that changes what makes sense next.