To cut yourself some slack is to not judge yourself so severely or to make things easier for yourself than you normally would because of a special situation at present.

That situation can be:

• Doom-scrolling on Instagram for 2 hours because you are kinda addicted to the scroll
• Feeling unmotivated to do the tasks at hand
• Not having a clear action plan in your schedule, thereby allowing you to cut yourself some slack
• You feeling under the weather and thereby not being your usual self
• Procrastinating yet again on a project

I find that the best way to move forward is to:

• Simply acknowledge the situation without judging yourself (i.e. You wasted so much time watching silly reels)
• Speak kindly to yourself (you can be objectively kind while delivering hard facts)
• Make a tiny-step action plan that advances you towards task completion (i.e. make 3 tiny steps towards task completion – super small steps – e.g. set a task timer, switch off your phone, create a clean workspace)
• Believe that you are capable of having that discipline to get things done

Slack made me think of the software service and it actually stands for:

Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge

Cool stuff.