Every chapter of your life eventually ends, and learning how to close a chapter in your life on purpose is one of the most underrated skills there is. A relationship runs its course. A job or a mission wraps up. A version of you quietly gives way to the next
Before you choose a single picture for your vision board, there’s a piece of work to do, and it happens on paper. Most of us skip it. We open Pinterest, save what catches our eye and assume the board will tell us what we want. Usually it tells us what
Think back to who you were ten years ago: what you wanted, who you spent your evenings with, what you were certain you’d be doing by now. That person would probably struggle to recognise your life today, and some of the things they were surest about turned out to matter
Ever since I was a kid, the Christmas season has always held a special magic for me. Growing up in Switzerland, where snow-dusted Christmases used to be the norm, only added to the enchantment. I love everything about this time of year—the cinnamon tea, hot chocolate, cozy blankets, glowing lights,
Three weeks after the decision, the excitement has worn off but the questions have not. You’ve handed in your notice, ended the relationship or finally moved to a new city. Now you’re standing in a supermarket you don’t know yet, unable to find the lentils, wondering whether you’ve just made
We all carry around an idea of how our lives are supposed to go. By this age, I should have figured this out. I should be further ahead. My career should look like this. My relationships should feel like that. I should be happier, more successful, more certain of what
In the late 1970s, two psychologists at the University of Rhode Island, James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente, set out to answer a deceptively simple question: how do people change when nobody is making them? They studied smokers who had managed to quit on their own, expecting to find a single
Maybe you found this article the way a lot of people do: late at night, typing a question into a search bar that you’re not ready to say out loud. Nothing is wrong, exactly. You’re doing everything you’re supposed to, ticking the boxes and keeping it all together, and yet
If you have already created a vision board at least once, you know how it works. You spend a couple of hours on Pinterest, save pictures of a beautiful house, a fit woman exercising, a model wearing a trendy outfit and a clean, organised desk, arrange them into something pretty,
You already know which thing this article is about. It came to mind somewhere between the title and this sentence: the conversation you keep rehearsing in the shower, the application that has been sitting in your drafts since spring, the class you have looked up three times and never booked.
