The new year is a time when many people set good intentions for how we're going to improve our lives. Mid-January is a time when many people have fallen off from carrying out those good intentions.

Humans are not automatically strategic.

We do not always take time to think through what we want to achieve and how we plan to achieve that. It isn’t a factory default setting in people to consider how our plans might go wrong, or whether this is really what we want. That can work out for us, especially when what we want to do is a normal, expected thing that most people set out to do and succeed at.

Many of us aren’t living normal, expected life paths. Today, we’re going to take some time to sit and reason about our goals and do deliberately what we might not do automatically.