Early July Allows Us to Reacquaint Ourselves with New Year Goals.

July marks the beginning of the second half of the year. It allows us moments to reacquaint ourselves with the aspirations from new year’s.

Most people abandon their new year’s goals by early or mid-February. When you abandon them all of the ambitious, go-get-‘em self-talk is wasted. That’s a shame.

Daily life and obligations make it easy to lose sight of the aspirations, which you had for the new year. As John Lennon once sang, “life is what happens when you’re busy doing other things”. That’s why, when you notice that July marks the beginning of the next half of the year, you can choose check in on what you had wanted to achieve or attain in 2025. This, even if one aspiration was simply to maintain a habit.

For example, if you’re part of the 24% of Americans who has a fitness habit, like me, choosing to maintain that counts in the mid-year check in.

// I suspect that, come the latter part of a year, many adults see themselves too far past the New Year’s Day time stamp. That day is fixed in their imaginations as something that can’t be revisited during the summer. Maybe summer can’t be for do-overs? The key is to note that you can restart an aspiration months after January 1^st without being embarrassed. You’ll have one up on other adults who are too self-conscious to tackle their year-long goals even months later.

For me one mid-term goal: I aspire to find a (hopefully fun) communications-oriented job. With a BA in communications from the University of Minnesota and several years of work as an independent journalist and writer, I want and deserve to use those credentials to make money. I need to create weekly reminders about making progress.

// Some find it strange or peculiar for people to use early July as a way to reacquaint themselves with aspirations from the New Year. A vital question is how do you want to use the second half of your year? Be humble enough to admit to yourself that daily life distracted you from tending to your overall goals.

You could see time on Earth as a gift. How do you want to spend that?

Remember what you aspired to months ago and note what events or forces distracted you from daily or weekly progress. Bottom line: January needn’t hold undue influence as a time stamp for your goals.