2017 is halfway over. Where did it go? What have we done? What happened to our goals from January? January 1 is always so full of promise, so full of hope. We have another chance, a clean slate, a new year unsullied by the failures of years past. This is the year, we say, that things will be different. This is the year that things will change. This is the year that life gets better. We think, we plan, we set lofty goals.

Most of us even take some action on January 1. We “start the year off right” with a workout. We figure out a new diet to start. We spend time with our kids. We write out a business plan for that business we’ve wanted to start. We get started on that project we’ve been thinking about. [Read more…] about What Good is Half a Year?