New Year Resolution No. 11: Live more

Another few days and we're in New Year Action, rather than New Year Resolution, country. So, as No. 11 on HETLoR - Honest ET List of Resolutions - we suggest you resolve to dump all that new-age business of 'work-life balance', and dance upon its ashes with the vim and vigour of a super-caffeinated accountant. Enough of all this 'boundaries' and 'self-care'. No more scheduled power naps between Zoom calls, but naps whenever there is no Zoom. Work-life balance is a myth invented by laggards - of life, those timid souls who believe winter weekends are for PowerPoints and not picnics. While others guzzle deadlines, you will now accumulate time and spend well-earned money on paperbacks and streaming shows, not for quarterly reports and video cons.

Embrace the joy of imbalance. The working life is to be spent on life, not the other way around. And if you need a anti-Gen X vax to get the courage to do that, get yourself inoculated. There will be folks who will tell that abandoning the bias towards work in 'work-life' is woke. Tell them, politely, you'd be happy to be 'awoke' then while they sleep-work themselves through another year. So, here's to the year we stop extolling the virtues of 'Protestant work ethic' - while some continue with 'Catholic leisure' - and start enjoying a well-earned life. While you're alive, you might as well miss some deadlines.