Ever have one of those years where everything looked fine on the surface—bills paid, calendar full, nothing dramatically wrong—and yet, something felt... off? Not crisis-level off, just low-simmer disengaged, like you were watching your own life on mute. No alarms going off, but no real music playing either.
Maybe you noticed yourself moving through routines on autopilot. Conversations became placeholders, not connections. Your days weren’t disasters—they just didn’t move you. That kind of quiet drifting can be sneaky. It doesn’t shout like burnout or scream like heartbreak. It just numbs.
The question is: were you at peace… or just passive? Content… or quietly checked out?
In the year ahead, what might it look like to pay closer attention to the small signs—boredom, impatience, envy, the way time feels too fast or too slow? Those aren’t moral failings; they’re data. Signals. And they can guide tiny course corrections before quiet drift becomes full-on disconnection.
You don’t have to overhaul your life overnight. Sometimes a single act of curiosity, a meaningful “no,” or a bold “yes” is enough to paddle out of the current and remind yourself that you’re still steering this thing.
So—what’s one small turn you'd make today, just to feel the wheel in your hands again?