Chase the dream you can’t ignore—it’s waited long enough, and so have you.
Every year, we make a predictable and well-intentioned list of New Year’s Resolutions.
Lose weight. Change careers. Find love. Save money.
There’s nothing wrong with committing to self-improvement. Some years, we truly make those steady, consistent changes that lead to better places. But we also know all too well what typically happens to our resolutions.
By February 1st, they’re often forgotten. The gradual, consistent adjustments we planned become too inconvenient for our daily routines, and so we let them go. Life carries on as usual—until the next New Year’s when the cycle starts again.
This year, let’s break the cycle.
Let’s realize that most resolutions don’t require 365 days of work. They often just need one day—one hour, or even just one moment—of courage.
The sixty seconds it takes to quit the job that doesn’t serve you. The ten seconds it takes to share your feelings with someone you want to spend your year with. The brief moment it takes to click “purchase” on those plane tickets you’ve been dreaming about.
We like to imagine that change takes a full year, but so often, it doesn’t. Many of life’s biggest transformations happen in a single moment—even if that moment is just the decision that you can’t keep going the same way any longer.
This year, I hope you go for it—whatever “it” is for you.
Your dream job. Your dream relationship. Your dream lifestyle. I hope this is the year you stop making excuses and finally decide that what you want is worth the leap.
I hope this is the year you let go of the limits you’ve placed on yourself. The year you stop telling yourself you can’t have what you want because you aren’t smart enough, wealthy enough, experienced enough, or lucky enough. I hope it’s the year you break the rules you thought you had to follow. Not this year. Not anymore.
By the time December 31st, 2025, rolls around, I hope you look back and marvel at how much has changed. How different everything feels because of the bold choices you made. Not because you stuck to a strict routine, but because you took action. You identified what you wanted and went after it—no matter how scary, no matter how uncertain, and no matter how many times you had to stumble along the way.
This year, I hope you embrace the life you’d live if fear weren’t a factor.
So in 2025, I hope you pursue the thing this post brought to mind—the one you’ve hesitated to acknowledge but know is there. That’s your real dream, and it’s waited long enough.
This year, let it wait no longer. Let this be the year you go for it. And after that, no year will ever look the same again.
