Why I'm not making any resolutions this January.... (and why you shouldn't either)
January has a way of arriving with a lot of opinions and expectations.
New year, new you.
Fresh starts. Better habits. Clear intentions, blah blah blah...
And yet, before you’ve even had your first green smoothie, there’s often a low-level sense of despondency.
Every year we’re encouraged to make changes right this very second.
Be more productive. More organised. More efficient with our time.
But I keep coming back to the same question:
If you’re trying to change things, how do you know whether anything is actually helping if you don’t know where you’re starting from?
Instead of fixing or optimising my days, or setting ambitious new routines, I decided to do something much simpler.
For one month, I don’t change anything.
I don’t correct my schedule.
I don’t rearrange my days.
I don’t guilt-edit what I write down.
I just notice how my time is actually spent.
That’s it.
I turned this practice into a small printable ebooklet called Why I Am Terribly Busy.
It’s a simple time audit you can use for any month, anytime.
You might print it and write by hand.
You might use it on a tablet or e-reader.
You might do a slightly chaotic combination of both.
The booklet is intentionally undated. You can begin on any day that feels right.
This isn’t about managing your time better.
It’s about understanding your life as it actually is, before deciding whether anything needs to change.
Sometimes the most useful thing you can do at the start of something new is simply to pay attention.