Plan a real rest day — active recovery, genuine downtime, and a reset — instead of either grinding through or collapsing into a guilt-scroll. Use when asked how to spend a rest day, plan a recovery day, I'm burnt out and need to recharge, or what should I do on my day off. Produces a recovery plan matched to what you're recovering from (physical, mental, or both), gentle active-recovery options, restorative downtime that actually restores, light admin to reduce next-week stress, and permission to do less.
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Use recovery-day-planner to create a restorative [full day or time available] plan based on [what I am recovering from and depletion level], taking account of [what recharges me and essential must-dos].
Required inputs
[full day or time available]
[what I am recovering from and depletion level]
[what recharges me and essential must-dos]
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name: recovery-day-plannerdescription: "Plan a real rest day — active recovery, genuine downtime, and a reset — instead of either grinding through or collapsing into a guilt-scroll. Use when asked how to spend a rest day, plan a recovery day, I'm burnt out and need to recharge, or what should I do on my day off. Produces a recovery plan matched to what you're recovering from (physical, mental, or both), gentle active-recovery options, restorative downtime that actually restores, light admin to reduce next-week stress, and permission to do less."
Recovery Day Planner
A rest day fails two ways: you fill it with chores and errands until it's just unpaid work, or you collapse into an all-day scroll and end up more depleted and guilty. This designs a day that actually recharges you — matched to whether you're physically wrecked, mentally fried, or both — with genuine restoration, a little friction-reducing admin, and explicit permission to do less.
What This Skill Produces
A recovery read — what you're actually recovering from (hard training, a brutal work week, poor sleep, emotional load)
Active-recovery options — gentle movement that helps without adding fatigue (walk, stretch, easy swim)
Genuine downtime — restorative activities that recharge (nature, real rest, connection, a hobby) vs. the fake rest that drains
Light reset admin — the small, optional tasks that make next week lighter, capped so it's not a work day
Permission to do less — an explicit low-effort version for when you're truly empty
Required Inputs
Ask for these if not provided:
What you're recovering from — physical (training/labor), mental (stress/overwork), emotional, or all
How depleted — a normal rest day or genuinely burnt out
Time — a full day, half day, or a few hours
What recharges you — nature, socializing, solitude, creating, moving, doing nothing
Any must-dos — the one or two things that genuinely can't wait
Framework: Match The Depletion, Restore For Real
Diagnose the depletion. Physical fatigue wants gentle movement and sleep; mental fatigue wants a change of scene and low-stimulation; emotional load wants connection or solitude and kindness. Match the day to it.
Active recovery, not more load. Light movement aids physical recovery — but keep it easy; a "rest day" that's secretly a workout isn't rest.
Choose restorative over fake rest. Doomscrolling and binge-watching often deplete; nature, real downtime, hobbies, and connection restore. Steer toward the latter.
Cap the admin. A little tidying/planning reduces next-week stress — but time-box it hard so the day doesn't become chores.
Permit less. If they're truly empty, the win is rest itself — give an explicit permission-to-do-nothing version, guilt-free.
Output Format
Recovery day: recovering from [what] · [how depleted] · [time]