An ideal time to consider pursuing change is after…

An ideal time to consider pursuing change is after a fresh start. Fresh starts, increase your motivation to change, because they give you either a real clean slate or the impression of one. The relegate your failures more cleanly to the past, and they boost your optimism about the future. They can also disrupt bad habits and lead you to think bigger pictures about your life.

— from Time

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Your answer is a map to what you value. Use the natural fresh starts, too — a birthday, a new year, even a Monday — because a clean line drawn on the calendar genuinely strengthens your will to change. Name your three non-negotiables. Decide the few people and purposes the hours are for, and put them on the calendar before anything else gets to. — Time

Notice, too, the genuine achievement drive that marks effective people: they are pulled to achieve for its own sake, forever raising their own bar, not merely chasing the salary or the title. And use the leverage of a fresh start — a new year, a new chapter — because beginnings genuinely lift the will to change, wiping the slate clean and raising your optimism. And here is the practical key to staying fueled: devote your energy to the things you genuinely enjoy. Excellence follows enthusiasm, and almost nothing done purely for prestige ever leads to lasting success. — Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)

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