Like many folks, I started this year by joining a gym. More specifically, I rejoined a gym that I used to go to consistently until the pandemic. For six years, I’ve regularly thought I should go back. While I continued to stay active, I missed the classes, and more importantly, I missed the community. And yet, I kept not joining, for reasons I could not articulate. Even after signing up again, it took a good friend telling me we were going to a class together for me to get back into it.

There is a particular inertia that impacts our ability to move forward on our goals. Whether it’s something personal like physical fitness, or something........

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