By the time you buy a planner for next year, your life could be totally different.
I love picking out a new planner for the coming year.
The pages are fresh + crisp. The cover, with its florals, motivational message, or embossed year, promises possibility. There is so much potential in those pages + in all that the new year will bring.
Similarly exhilarating are many of the conversations at the end of each year - reflecting on days past + discussing resolutions for the new year. But I’ve found that many of these discussions involve an implicit acknowledgment that many, if not all, of these resolutions, are unlikely to actually be accomplished… The business venture will remain unstarted. The weight will not be lost. The stack of books on the bedside table will remain untouched. The pantry or closet will still be a mess. The emergency fund will be empty.
But it doesn't have to be that way.