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.
Nearly every one of us will face this feeling one day. On paper, the life is a good one. Nothing has fallen apart. The job is fine, the relationship is fine, the flat is fine. And yet you catch yourself lying in your bed on a random Monday night thinking:
There’s one thing you’ve been meaning to do since earlier this week. It would take you about five minutes, you know it would, and it has still followed you through several days, at least two to-do lists and several showers. Then there’s the thing you’d love to be doing, the
The deadline you set back in January comes and goes, the savings account is roughly where you left it, or the running shoes you bought with such good intentions are still sitting by the front door. Nobody else seems to notice, but you do, and it stings more than you
Maybe you just turned 30 and realised you’re nowhere near the life you pictured. Maybe you had one ordinary bad day at work and found yourself driving home wondering what you’re even doing with all of this. Whatever set it off, the feeling is the same: unmoored, a little numb,
Somewhere, in a notebook or a notes app, you have a goal that has appeared on more than one year’s list. You meant it every time you wrote it down. You may even have started, with a burst of effort in the first couple of weeks, before work got busy
What happens to a New Year’s resolution in its first two weeks? On 1 January, it feels obvious. The plan is fresh, the motivation is high and the year ahead looks like a clean page. By the second Friday of the month, so many people have let their resolutions slip
Have you ever seen the famous ikigai diagram, the one with four overlapping circles and the word ikigai in the middle? It may surprise you to learn that it doesn’t come from Japan. A blogger put it together in the 2010s by taking an existing Western diagram about purpose and
January is the best time of the year to start fresh, and a lot of that comes down to company. For a few weeks, almost everyone around you is doing the same thing. Your colleagues come back from the holidays with plans, your friends are talking about what they’d like
There’s a specific kind of Monday morning that makes you want to start over. The alarm goes off, and before your feet even hit the floor, you already know how the week is going to feel. You’re not tired. You’re just tired of this. The version of your life that
