Most real fresh starts don’t happen on January 1st. They happen on some random weeknight after a bad week.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
A real start needs a reason, and the first of January does not supply one. A bad week does. You get home on an ordinary Tuesday, you have had enough, and for about two days there is a window where doing the hard thing is easier than carrying on as you were.
So use the night you feel it. Do one small irreversible thing while the feeling is live: delete the app, sign up, write the message, set the alarm. Tomorrow you will be calmer and less willing, and the decision will already be made.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
When did a real change of yours actually begin?
MORE IN GROWTH, CHANGE & REINVENTION
- Learning to swim at fifteen in the shallow end with little kids takes more guts than diving at five ever did.
- Quitting is walking away. Pivoting is walking away from one thing toward a better one. Know which you’re doing.
- Graduation speeches promise you can be anything. The truer version: you can try a lot of things and find out.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.