Beginning again, without the overhaul.
January will try to sell you a whole new life by February. I have watched that cycle for nearly thirty years and I have never once seen it hold. What holds is small, specific and slightly boring. So this issue is about the first small thing, and how to pick one you will still be doing in March. Gina
Nothing changes in a weekend. It changes in the fourth week, when it stopped being interesting and you did it anyway.
Nobody comes in wanting it. It is one of the clearest markers of how the next decades go.
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It starts at the feet. A minute that changes how you stand for the rest of the day.
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Stock these and dinner stops being a decision. The short list I actually keep.
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One bird, three dinners. The most useful thing you can learn to make well.
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Ten minutes, four ingredients. Proof that eating well is not complicated.
Read →“How do I pick a goal that I will not abandon by the end of the month?”
Make it smaller than feels worth doing. That is the whole trick, and everyone resists it. If it sounds impressive it is probably too big, because you chose it while feeling motivated, and motivation is not who shows up on a Tuesday in February. Pick the version you could do on your worst day: five minutes, one walk, water before coffee. Do it until it is boring. Boring is the goal, it means the thing has stopped requiring a decision. Then, only then, add the next one.
Have a question you’d love me to answer? Write to me, I read every one, and the best land in a future issue.
January hands every woman the same story. New year, new you, transform everything by spring.
It does not work, and it was never going to, because you are not a project to be completed. The thing you actually want is usually quieter and much more specific than a resolution, and you probably already know what it is.
The Leap is not a bigger version of a New Year plan. It is the opposite. One decision you have been avoiding, made properly, instead of twelve you will abandon.
The Wave →That’s it for this month. Don’t forget to catch GLOW Minutes on Instagram, and I’ll see you soon.
Gina
