Thoughts of the Week: January 17, 2025
Write the next chapter.
ICYMI: With Ultra Successful Journeys, I’ve curated dedicated pathways for the various journeys you might be going on—as well as some thematic readings for your personal and professional needs.
Is there an area you’ve thought about shifting up, for a long time? Something maybe you want to focus on, really level up, or just do differently…
Maybe today is the time to revisit that.
The second Friday in January is known as “Quitters Day.” It’s the day that most people give up on resolutions they’ve made for the new year…but the truth is, if you look around at the general public, they contain a lot of things they likely wanted to do and never seemed to get around to…and it didn’t just happen last Friday - but extend years and years beyond it.
Goals they had. Things they wanted to accomplish. And they just…gave up.
What’s keeping you from making sure your path is different? That your business or career goes where you want it to go, or that you even make personal changes you want to make?
Time to start writing that next chapter.
Every day that passes carries the power to reshape your trajectory—in business, career, and life. If you’re not where you want to be, you can start making moves to claim that future you want.
Choose something today—one thing—to shift up, and make different.
Maybe you test yourself by intentionally bringing a different mood, hitting the gym when you don’t feel like it, or speaking up in a meeting that you usually wouldn’t.
Small things show you what you can do, and you build on them.
Yes, it will require you to drop some old habits, and some familiar patterns, but what is the next chapter of your life, career, or business worth giving up?
It’s time to adapt, evolve, step out of your comfort zone, and start writing that next chapter. Turn the page—you’ve got this.
1. When you overcome your fear, you can overcome anything.
2. Bit of a throwback to when I was on The Long Game podcast and shared how to be ultra-successful:
3. Set yourself apart. Be audacious. Be bold.
Thanks for this reminder. It’s true that it’s not about waiting for the perfect moment or dwelling on past resolutions but about making one intentional shift today, no matter how small. Sometimes we need the reminder that progress isn’t built on grand leaps but on consistent, deliberate steps that remind us of our potential to evolve, grow, and create the life we aspire to. So we shouldn’t hold back from rewriting our story when the pen has always been in our hands.