The Mid-Year Vanishing Act

It's June 1st.

Remember January? The fresh calendar pages, the unblemished planner, the resolutions declared with conviction over ambitious planning sessions.

Six months ago, you knew exactly what this year was supposed to look like.

But something happened on the way to June. Those carefully crafted goals—the ones you wrote down, shared with colleagues, maybe even posted on your wall—have performed a disappearing act worthy of a Vegas magician.

They weren't officially canceled. They simply faded, victims of the urgent crowding out the important.

This isn't about shame or finger-pointing. It's about noticing.

When we allow our intentions to vanish without acknowledgment, we're telling ourselves a story about what matters, but we're not being honest with ourselves.

The problem isn't that we abandoned the goals. Sometimes abandonment is exactly the right move. The problem is that we didn't decide to abandon them—we just stopped deciding altogether.

The mid-year mark isn't asking for a performance review or demanding you catch up on six months of supposed progress. It's offering you a rarer gift: the chance to choose again, with the wisdom of half a year behind you.

What if today you simply noticed the goals that have gone missing? Not to resurrect them all, but to consciously choose which deserve your renewed attention and which should be properly laid to rest.

The most powerful commitments aren't the ones that survive by accident. They're the ones we choose, again and again, even after we've disappeared on them for a while.

Choose again.