January doesn’t wipe the slate clean. Life doesn’t reset at midnight, and we don’t become new people just because the calendar changes. Most of us step into a new year carrying unfinished thoughts, half-formed intentions, and a quiet exhaustion left behind by December’s noise. As the festive rush faded and the urgency of “new year, new goals” began to feel oddly hollow, I noticed something else settling in: stillness. And in that stillness, I made a simple but intentional dec