Why your June 22 is so important…

Today is June 22. In 8 days , 2025 will be halfway over!

That seems hard to believe! It seems like just yesterday we were making our plans for the year and feeling motivated about the future.

Question to think about: what have we accomplished in this near-half-year? Have we achieved what we set out to achieve? Made a dent in the process? (If so, let’s go ahead and pat ourselves on the back right now!)

Or…did we, like so many of us, fall short and succumb to procrastination?

No matter! The message today is the same for us all! We can each commit right now to starting a new motivated chapter in our lives. Sending this message, today is to remind us that….

It can be easy to read motivational emails week after week without acting. Inspiriation can only take us so far. Eventually we’re going to have to do something and what better time to do than than now?

Here’s what we can do:

Step 1-write down (not just think about it) what we had set out to achieve at the beginning of 2025, what progress we’ve made up to this point, and maybe our reasons why we have or haven’t made enough progress.

Step 2-choose one “mini-goal” to commit to today and one slightly later goal to knock off this week.

I think doing this starting for summer is even better than starting on New Year’s Day, because we aren’t waiting for some arbitrary day to get started.

The beginning of the rest of our life always starts today, right now. All we have to do is pick one domino to knock over and that momentum can lead to the others falling as well.

After all, today IS the only day we can really be sure of!

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