Can You Still Make the Most out of 2020?

The best is probably to finish things off and relax.

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2020 has been the craziest year in a very long time, mainly due to the coronavirus. In fact, this is the biggest pandemic known to human kind in the past 100 years. No person alive today has experienced this before. Because of it, almost all major social events and gatherings have been cancelled: concerts, festivals, marathons, other sport events… A lot of people lost their job, had to cancel their travel plans, or even worse, lost loved ones due to the virus. The stock market had the biggest up and down movements since 1986.

With all this insanity happening, a “time paradox” has taken place. Most of us were not able to do anything at the peak of the pandemic, when most countries entered their lockdown phase. We had to stay home for months, trying to stay busy, watching Netflix, and that was boring for a lot of us. Once the lockdowns stopped, all major events we usually attend, like concerts, parties, or even just a drink with friends, were cancelled. We didn’t have anything to do to relax like we usually do. Instead, we had to find another way to kill time. It’s safe to say time felt pretty long during those months.

Yet, here we are in September 2020, and it feels like the year has once again flown by. We’ve had to handle so much, catch up with so many things, we somehow still made it to 4 months before the end of the year without seeing it coming. There’s nothing getting in the way of time, not even corona. In 4 months (actually, 3 months and a half), 2021 will be be upon us, whether we like it or not.

So how to make the most out of the time left? How to make 2020 feel like it wasn’t cancelled, skipped, taken out of our time bank? How to catch up on the missed resolutions, the lack of time, the money lost?

Well, here’s how.

September: assess and plan

September is the start of the school year, so a lot of the kids will be out. For businesses, it’s the beginning of the last quarter of the year, a crucial time. Summer is over, Autumn is upon us, and if this was a normal year, people would be sharing their last summer vacation pictures, reminisce over the good times they had, and then get back to work…