Forget maxxing your life. 2027 must be the year we relax – and start minning | Polly Hudson

Maxxing is selfish, desperately try-hard and often futile. Instead of pushing your endeavours to the limit, minning means doing them less, if at all Public service announcement: fellow citizens, we have maxxmaxxinged. It has been close for a while, but now we have gone over the edge – reached, and passed, maximum maxxing. The tipping point was a week in which we saw reports of Namemaxxing .

If you can’t decide between two baby names, pick them both. Suggestions included blending Maeve and Avery to create Mavery, or Leo and Giovanni to make Leovanni – Futupid. Then Dictionary. com revealed its word of the year and, yes, you guessed it: maxxing. It’s fully exhausting, in every way, but mainly in that -maxx has been fully exhausted. For the good of us all, 2027 has to be the year of minning. (The second “n” is important, otherwise pits may be…