Every new year, we kind of expect the same thing.
A new mentality. New goals. New plans. A system update we assumed would install overnight. And while I personally have all of that in mind, the momentum has been… missing.
Not absent, just ‘late.’
Like it’s taking the scenic route, despite my clear preference for a straight shot.
It’s not that I’m doing nothing. I am working toward things. I know what I want. I just don’t feel energetically positioned to sprint. I’m writing this while it’s pouring raining in Kansas City, gray and heavy outside, and my energy has felt pretty similar. Not sad. Not negative. Just low-grade, slightly dull, very “let me stare out the window for a second.” There have been moments where my mind is yelling DO SOMETHING and my body is calmly asking, with what fuel, exactly?
I used to think that was a problem.
Especially at the start of a new year, when it feels like society paints the picture of everyone waking up o…
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