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The Calendar We Inherited

We're trying to change our lives on a schedule designed for harvesting wheat and coordinating factory workers.

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Scott D. Clary
Oct 16, 2025
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January 1st rolls around and suddenly you’re supposed to know what you want to change about yourself for the next 365 days.

You make the list. Lose weight. Read more. Start the business. Learn the language. This is the year.

By February, most of it’s abandoned. By March, you’ve forgotten you made the list at all. By December, you’re making the same list again, maybe with different words.

We call this failure. A discipline problem. A commitment issue.

But what if the problem isn’t you? What if the problem is that you’re trying to change your life on a schedule designed for harvesting wheat?

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