Why your new year should start in March (My spring reset guide)

And if you are not a UK listener, just FYI, it has rained for 40 days non-stop here to start the year which has been pretty dreary to say the least not to mention the fact that you can't get to midday without it already feeling like the sun is setting but today's episode has been brewing for a few weeks because I have quietly made the executive decision to restart new year I've kind of come to the conclusion that January was just a rehearsal and the more I've been thinking about this the more I've been thinking that this is actually a really good way to think Because you test anything that you're going to really commit to for a long time.

Like anything else that you thought I'm going to commit to for 12 months, you'd probably test for a little bit first.

You don't just throw yourself immediately into it.

Whereas the new year, we just think, oh, I'm going to start on this one day.

And then the whole year is just going to go exactly how I planned.

Realistically, we need a little trial period.

We've had our little trial period.

And so we are going to push forward from here.

And I say this all as someone who usually loves New Year.

I love goals.

I love a vision board.

I love sitting down with a planner.

We literally did an entire series of the podcast around resetting for the New Year, and none of that is irrelevant.

But I think that it's true to say that January is not always the most intelligent time to rebuild your whole life from scratch.

And don't get me wrong.

Every single December, I will still be vision boarding.

I will still be thinking about what I want from my life.

And I encourage you to do the same.

But that doesn't mean your life needs to change on January 1st.

At that point, you've just come out of December, which is usually emotionally intense, socially intense, financially intense, all three.

Your routine has dissolved.

Your sleep is questionable.

And then suddenly you're expected to be operating at like peak performance.

There's no runway or ramp up.

And then if your work or personal life starts playing up too, your window of tolerance becomes increasingly slim, which is setting yourself up for failure.