{"id":8269,"date":"2025-12-01T00:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=8269"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:12:23","slug":"recta-final-del-ano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/12\/01\/recta-final-del-ano\/","title":{"rendered":"Home stretch (of the year)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November is gone, and here comes December, the last month of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There\u00b4s only a month left in 2025!<\/strong> We\u00b4re in the home stretch of this year; we\u00b4ll be saying hello to 2026 in no time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"348\" data-attachment-id=\"8268\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/img_20251130_191153\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?fit=4000%2C2060&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4000,2060\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.75&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;AC2003&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1764529913&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.745&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;3200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.058823529411765&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_20251130_191153\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Black letters on a light grey background: \u00abDiciembre 2025\u00bb (December 2025)&lt;\/p&gt;\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?fit=676%2C348&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188-1024x527.jpg?resize=676%2C348&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?resize=1024%2C527&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?resize=768%2C396&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?resize=1536%2C791&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?resize=2048%2C1055&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?resize=18%2C9&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?resize=676%2C348&amp;ssl=1 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?resize=600%2C309&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_20251130_191153-e1764530241188.jpg?w=1352&amp;ssl=1 1352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(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.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u00b4s a topic that\u00b4s always on my mind, and one at which, in my opinion, I\u00b4m 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: <a href=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/01\/06\/el-ano-de\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/es_es\/2025\/01\/06\/el-ano-de\/\">2025 was going to be the year of...<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/01\/13\/palabras-intraducibles-declutter\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/es_es\/2025\/01\/13\/palabras-intraducibles-declutter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Decluttering<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then what happened? Well, now that I think of it, two main things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First, I didn\u00b4t set <strong>specific goals<\/strong> 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\u00b4s resolutions, more often than not).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And second, I didn\u00b4t <strong>follow up <\/strong>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?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the saying goes, <em>life got in the way<\/em> , like it often happens. But it\u00b4s precisely because we know that this is what happens, because we know life keeps changing and our priorities change too, that it\u00b4s so important for us to have a method that can help us to adjust our course and continue to cruise without losing our way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good news is that it\u00b4s 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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There\u00b4s still a month left in 2025! How are you going to make the most of it?<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Se acaba noviembre y llega diciembre, el \u00faltimo mes del a\u00f1o. \u00a1Ya s\u00f3lo queda un mes de 2025! Entramos en la recta final; dentro de nada estaremos estrenando el 2026. (Foto de la p\u00e1gina de diciembre del calendario que tengo en la puerta de mi cocina. Tener un calendario en la puerta de la cocina &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/12\/01\/recta-final-del-ano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home stretch (of the year)<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":8268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"BinaryWords - Recta final (del a\u00f1o) \/ Home stretch (of the year)","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Once meses acabados, nos queda uno m\u00e1s... \/ Eleven months done, just one more left...","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5106,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","category-general","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DPtR-29n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9635,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/reto-de-30-dias\/","url_meta":{"origin":8269,"position":0},"title":"30-day challenge","author":"binarybea","date":"31\/08\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 opinas de los retos de 30 d\u00edas? \u00bfAlguna vez has hecho alguno? 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