We’ve all made ourselves this promise at least once in January. This is the year you finally sort it out: the mornings, the money, the thing you’ve been meaning to start for longer than you’d like to admit. And for some, the first week or two of January really do
Some of the heaviest things you carry weigh nothing at all. The dentist appointment you keep meaning to book, the parcel by the door that needs to go back, the email you’ve read twice and still haven’t answered and the feeling that you should be saving more: none of them
We’re halfway through the year, which means social media is about to fill with the same personal growth advice: do a mid-year check-in. Light a candle, open your journal, write down how the year is going, feel your feelings about it. It isn’t bad advice. It’s just incomplete, because a
The words on your vision board will probably be read more often than anything else you write this year. You’ll pass them on your way out of the door, see them on your phone fifty times a day and catch them out of the corner of your eye on the
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
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,
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
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
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
