So it's January 1st. Imagine you've made it through the first day of the year. It's night.

The sun goes down. The novelty of the day has worn off. Your feet is full of day one out of 365

posts, gym selfies, green smoothies, and neatly written resolutions. You meanwhile, are in this

kind of strange quiet in between. Maybe you

nailed the day. Maybe you didn't, maybe you didn't really start at all. And you're already

telling yourself, okay, the real new year starts tomorrow or maybe Monday or soon. There's

that little voice that says, if I don't get this right now,

the whole year is kind of doomed. So you do what we've all been trained to do. You try to draft

the perfect resolution, the perfect habit streak, the perfect health plan, the perfect

productivity system, the perfect version of

you who finally gets it together and just never falls off. And underneath all of that is this

pressure. If I just push hard enough, design it well enough, want it badly enough, I can finally fix myself this year.

Here's the question I want to explore with you today.

What if the problem isn't that you don't want it badly enough or aren't disciplined enough or haven't found the right planner or app. I mean, what if the problem

is the way that we've been taught to, quote, do the new year in the first place? What if the

traditional resolution, this rigid all or nothing promise that you make to a future you is

the wrong tool for an actual human life.

And what if there's a different way to begin?

A gentler, more flexible approach that doesn't hinge your worth on perfect follow-through,

that treat your goals as experiments and not ultimatums,

that makes quitting and changing your mind just a part of the process,

not proof of failure.

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