The 2024 Monthly Progress Practice
Progress is made through small, consistent action. We offer a monthly practice of small actions or inquiries to inspire positive change this year. Practice makes progress!
January – Be ambitious! Take small steps. What is an ambition you want to pursue this year that will move you closer to the vision you have for your life? What’s the first action step?
February – Carpe diem. What is it time for? What’s an ambition you want to take on this year, because its time has come? What’s the first action step?
March – Nurture. What’s an ambition or goal that is a seedling of an idea? What’s one action you can take to allow yourself to nurture the idea and step into its creative exploration?
April – Know yourself. Look back at your last week. Create two lists: What energized you? Do more. What drained you? Do less.
May – Pace yourself—now, near, next. Avoid having everything happen all at once. What must happen now? What can happen near in? And what can still be further out and next?
June – Pause yourself. Pauses and breaks are important to sustain ourselves. They can be short, even just one minute. How can you take a break each day and each week this month?
July – Be life ambitious. You can be as ambitious about life and maximizing your summer as you are about work. What do you want to be ambitious about in your life this summer?
August – Dial back. How ambitious do you feel right now? Let it be okay for your ambition to ebb and flow. Where can you dial it back this month?
September – Economize. Put the Pareto principle to work for you. Be audacious and challenge yourself to go after a goal putting in 20% of the effort yet still yield 80% of the results.
October – Satisfy yourself. What would you want to do this quarter to make the year feel successful to you on your terms?
November – Find your focus. What matters most as you close the year? What can you put off until next year?
December – See the good. Find peace in the concept of agathism—that things tend toward good. Find comfort by seeing the good around you.
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