The trouble with New Year resolutions is they demand discipline you don't have after a month of Cadbury's Roses and questionable life choices. To my mind, what works better are the small things: habits and rituals that don't require reinvention, just a bit of attention.
If 2025 taught us anything, it's that our brains are fried. Between client emails, algorithm anxiety, and the lingering dread that AI might steal your job, creative work requires focus that feels increasingly impossible to summon. The gym membership will languish by February. The productivity system will gather dust. But a ritual you can do in under ten minutes? That might actually stick.
