I don’t know about you, but I find a little magic in the start of the year. There’s some kind of special spark in the air as we head into 2023, and I don’t think it’s just the beautiful summer weather we’re having here in Australia or the indulgence in a glass or two of champagne that’s customary for me at this time of year. Instead, as the clock ticks over from 11:59pm on December 31 into the wee hours of January 1, I get all kinds of energy from the start of something new—

It’s the start of the year and blogs everywhere are full of posts about time management. Starting energy is in the air, and the world feels full of infinite possibility—like we can do anything if we put our minds to it. Yet often once we set our writing goals, a strange thing happens: we work out that if we break these goals down, they require more time to execute than we currently have available. We need an extra hour in every day. I'm an eternal optimist. I believed there w