Chris Evergreen here. Welcome to your daily goodwill
for Tuesday, January 27th. It's late January.
The New Year glow has officially worn off. You're
probably looking at goals you set three weeks
ago, wondering if past you was delusional or
just wildly optimistic. Maybe both. Here's the
thing about late January Tuesdays. They're not
dramatic. They're just quietly testing whether
you meant any of it. The gym stops feeling like
an adventure and starts feeling like a chore.
The project you were excited about now has a
middle section that won't right itself. This
is where consistency lives, not in the highlight
reel, in the part where nobody's watching and
the dopamine ran out. Here's today's advice.
Stop measuring today against your best day. Measure
it against not quitting. That's it. That's the
bar. Your brain wants to compare today's effort
to that one magical Tuesday two weeks ago when
everything clicked. When you felt motivated and
clear and unstoppable. But that version of Tuesday
isn't coming back today. And that's fine. Today
you might show up at 60%. You might do the thing
badly. You might do half the thing and call it
progress. All of that counts. Because the gap
between doing it badly and not doing it at all
is enormous. Doing it badly keeps the door open.
Quitting locks it. Let's say you're trying to
build a habit. Writing every morning. Stretching.
Learning a language. Some days it's going to
feel like pulling teeth. You're going to sit
down and produce garbage or barely move through
the motions. Do it anyway. Not because garbage
is valuable, but because showing up when it's
hard trains a different muscle than showing up
when it's easy. It trains the part of you that
doesn't need perfect conditions to function.
And that part is going to carry you further than
motivation ever will. You're not trying to be
impressive today. You're trying to be consistent.
And your goodwill move for today. Text someone
who's working on something hard. Just say you're
thinking of them. No advice. No pep talk. Just
acknowledgement. Because they're probably in
the messy middle too. And knowing someone sees
them keeping going matters more than you think.
That's your daily goodwill for Tuesday, January
27th. Consistency isn't glamorous but it's the
only thing that compounds. Talk soon.