November is gone, and here comes December, the last month of the year.

There´s only a month left in 2025! We´re in the home stretch of this year; we´ll be saying hello to 2026 in no time.

(Photo of the December page in the calendar currently hanging on my kitchen door. Having a calendar on the kitchen door is one of those habits I inherited from my family, and it may seem a little old-fashioned, now that we have Google Calendar and other modern contraptions, but I still love having a physical calendar at home, along with a giant whiteboard we can all write on, and clocks in almost every room.)

Today I thought I'd have a look at what I wrote on this blog at the beginning of the year. And I bumped into something I set out to do back in January, which, to be honest, I had forgotten about... Or not really, as it´s a topic that´s always on my mind, and one at which, in my opinion, I´m getting better at. But I had forgotten that back then I decided to make this my theme for the year, my common thread, my focus of attention: 2025 was going to be the year of... Decluttering.

And then what happened? Well, now that I think of it, two main things:

• First, I didn´t set specific goals to work on; I settled for a goal that was too generic and "up in the air", without "bringing it down to Earth" in the shape of specific and measurable tasks (this, by the way, is what happens to our New Year´s resolutions, more often than not).
• And second, I didn´t follow up throughout the year; I had a very good start, but then, along the way, there were other problems to solve, other tasks to attend to and other goals to achieve, pushing aside what I considered to be so important only a year ago. Does this ring a bell?

As the saying goes, life got in the way , like it often happens. But it´s precisely because we know that this is what happens, because we know life keeps changing and our priorities change too, that it´s so important for us to have a method that can help us to adjust our course and continue to cruise without losing our way.

The good news is that it´s always a good time to take (or resume) control of our ship, evaluate the situation, and act accordingly. In this case, there are still thirty days left for me to focus on freeing up space, be it physically, mentally, emotionally and even spiritually. So, turning the phrase around:

There´s still a month left in 2025! How are you going to make the most of it?