Pressure, Reinvention, and the Quiet Fear of Wasting Time

“New year, new me” season is loud. Vision boards. Career pivots. Gym promises. Side hustles. Reinvention.

But for a lot of us, underneath that is panic.

• “Am I wasting my potential?”
• “Did this year even count?”
• “What if I’m still in the same place 12 months from now?”
• “What if I change everything and it still doesn’t fix how I feel?”

This meetup is a space to slow down the mental spiral and ask better questions than “How do I optimize myself?”

We’ll talk about:

• The pressure to constantly upgrade yourself like you’re a software release
• The shame of feeling stuck, even if on paper you’re doing ‘fine’
• The fantasy of a total reset vs. the reality of small, honest shifts
• How to define success in a way that feels alive to you — not performative for other people

This isn’t about creating resolutions. It’s about checking in with the human underneath the goals.

You don’t need a five-year plan to show up here. You just need curiosity about your own life.