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Week 58: The Winter Arc

Following daylight savings, it gets dark pretty quick after working hours these days.

We remark how, when it’s fully dark at 6pm, that it seems so late. And all across the world (Northern hemisphere at least), animals prepare for winter. They’re fattening up. Getting nests and dens and burrows ready. And preparing to rest and hibernate.

Only to emerge again in spring, sleepy-eyed and sluggish.

We humans, however, are one of the most adaptable species on this planet; we can choose our winter arc.

Rather than hibernating, we can forge ahead. We can use this time to focus up, scheme, plan, and still make gains in any direction we choose.

While everyone else lays around watching Netflix, you can be the one who surprises everyone come March and April.

I say it often, but it’s often true. We tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a single day, but we vastly underestimate what we can do in 100 focused days.

The cold days and cold months are the time to set the tone for the rest of the year. It will be easier than any other time of the year to stay in bed, to mail it in, to say it’s not that important.

But if you don’t give in to the excuses, you will find something else entirely. You’ll develop essential discipline to bring your most audacious aspirations closer to reality.

And you’ll find that discipline equals freedom.

So while you could use your time this winter to catch up on all 21 seasons of Top Chef (great show btw), you could also use it to read that book you’ve been meaning to, get in shape, write the next great screenplay, or learn how to utilize AI tools in your life and work.

The possibilities are endless.

But our time is not.

So get going.

What are you going to do with your Winter Arc?

“Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.” -Victor Kiam

Live triumphantly. See you next week.