THE PRODUCTIVITY CULT HANDBOOK: 12 Steps to Recover from Optimization Culture

"We admitted we were powerless over our planners—that our lives had become unmanageable bullet points."

Fellow escapee, it's 11:47 PM, you're having an existential crisis over washi tape colors in Target, and you're crying in the planner aisle. Again. Welcome to rock bottom.

The Productivity Cult Handbook is not another system promising to optimize your life. It's a satirical yet compassionate 12-step recovery program for those who've spent years chasing the productivity dragon—only to discover we've been running in circles within our bullet journals.

From planner addiction to liberation, this handbook guides you through revolutionary realizations:

Through darkly humorous confessions, therapeutic exercises, and cult deprogramming checkpoints, you'll learn why productive people don't have elaborate systems—they have boundaries, priorities, and the radical ability to say no.

This isn't about abandoning organization. It's about acknowledging you've been trying to plan your way out of being human—avoiding the messy reality of interruptions, energy fluctuations, and wanting to watch true crime instead of optimizing your morning routine.

By the final step, you'll understand humans aren't machines needing constant upgrading. You need to be honored, trusted, and allowed to unfold at your own pace.

In a world profiting from your perpetual self-improvement, the most radical act is deciding you're already enough. Your contentment is revolutionary. Your authenticity is political. Your refusal to conform to someone else's ideal is rebellion.

Welcome to the revolution against your inner overachiever. Your planner will never look at you the same way again.