Start Today

I believe there are a lot of things that shouldn’t be “wait-until-New-Year” projects.

The most common ones are starting to work out, taking care of your diet, etc.

Why wait until January 1st if you can start making even a 1% shift toward those goals today?

Waiting for the Earth to complete another orbit around the Sun before you start taking care of yourself or getting better is a crazy concept to me.

That said, there is some inner stuff that benefits from having a clean “end of a period” to look back on.

A retrospective needs a container - a stretch of time you can actually review.

In that sense, one full year feels pretty sane: you can step back, see what kept repeating, and notice patterns you couldn’t spot while you were in the middle of them.

Then you go into the next orbit with a clearer idea of what you want to keep, what you want to change, and what you want to let go of.

Quick retrospective prompts:

• What did I keep doing even when I said I’d stop?
• What did I avoid, and what did it cost me?
• What gave me energy this year, and what drained it?
• What’s the smallest change that would make the next year feel lighter?