January Is Gone. How Is Your Consistency Level?
New Year’s promises? Oh yes… me too. I will exercise later. I will start tomorrow. I began… then winter came. And now I’m waiting for spring to continue... It’s almost funny how predictable we are. We treat our goals like seasonal decorations — we take them out when the mood is right and pack them away the moment life gets cold. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Your dreams don’t care about the weather. Your discipline doesn’t hibernate. Your future self is not waiting for spring. We are. We wait for the perfect moment, the perfect energy, the perfect alignment of motivation and mood. And while we wait, life quietly moves on without us. The Stoics warned us about this very trap. Marcus Aurelius wrote: “You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.” Tomorrow—the softest lie we tell ourselves. Tomorrow—the graveyard of our intentions. Tomorrow—the place where our potential goes to die. Winter didn’t stop you. Dark mornings didn’t stop you. Lack of motivation didn’t...
