By now, the new year has already started making decisions for people.

Not loud ones. Quiet ones.

What gets prioritized.
What gets postponed.
What slips back onto autopilot because it feels familiar.

That’s how most years are built. Not intentionally. By default.

A default year isn’t chaotic. Tha

There’s a moment on New Year’s Eve that doesn’t get talked about much. It’s not the countdown. It’s not the champagne. It’s not the noise. It’s the quiet right before midnight, when the year hasn’t ended yet and the next one hasn’t started.

That moment still belongs to you. Before the calendar fl