Happy 2025!
It’s Time For a Reset
Have you ever followed your comfort zone into stagnation?
Fall of 2022 unleashed a new revelation—I was creatively paralyzed. Yearning to expand, push my limits, and shatter the constraints I’d placed on my storytelling, I stepped away from publication pressure and committed to learning how to write in different genres.
It was not until the beginning of 2024 that I gained some clarity about what would help me in the next phase of my writing career. Rather than continue to live like a feather cast about by the wind, I was determined to focus on three areas:
- habits that would anchor me,
- healthy practices that would sustain me,
- and connections that offer a mutual exchange of growth.
Ready to shake up my routine once more, I faced the first daunting list of changes:
- Consistent bedtime
- Morning sunlight
- Calm walks in nature
- Meditation
- Breath work
- Waiting 90 minutes before a single sip of morning coffee
- Chasing higher HRV scores
- Ice baths and its more convenient cousin, cold showers
- Strength training 3X per week
- Cardio 3x per week
- Intermittent fasting
- Ditching toxic relationships
- Hanging out with lovely people
- Cutting out or reducing sugar
- Cutting out or reducing white flour
- Wearing Blu-blockers while working
- Grounding/Earthing
- Red light therapy
- Lymphatic massage
- Using a SAD lamp
Could the key to growth be hiding outside my comfort zone? The biohackers’ approach challenged my well-worn habits.
Growth Means Embracing Uncertainty, Right?
Like all new adventures, the first steps felt invigorating—until intimidation showed up uninvited. Months in, I refused to let it stop me.
The shift arrived like a silent gift—my quirky perspective transformed into creative strength. Feedback offered promises, not threats. Laughter, even at my own awkward jokes, melted tension better than meditation.
Making Progress
. . . and embracing every plot twist.
What about you?
Maybe your list is shorter. Is it longer? Any suggestions on how to get started and keep going?
Coming Soon: A Sneak Peek
My next novel features a heroine who must also break free from her comfort zone. But her stakes involve more than cold showers—try solving a murder when personal transformation means accepting some hard truths.
Stay ConnectedYour journey matters to me. Share your reset list, and you might be one of three readers to receive an advance copy of the novel.
Until we chat again. . . .
P.S.: Hit reply and share your reset list below —I can’t wait to hear about your journey.
