Small Good Things

Begin the year without burning yourself out!

🌱 Consideration

Every January comes with noise.

New Year.
New You.
Big goals.
Big changes.
Big pressure.

But for people in recovery and honestly, for anyone who has lived through something hard, that pressure can feel less like motivation and more like a threat.

Because healing doesn’t happen in leaps.
It happens in small good things, done consistently.

You don’t need a resolution that remakes your life.
You need habits that help you stay in it.

🗣️ Communication

There’s a reason so many resolutions fail by February.

They’re built on shame.
They demand intensity instead of sustainability.
They ignore nervous systems that are already tired.

Healing, real healing, sometimes is not about doing more.
It’s about doing what actually helps, more often.

Small things like:

• Drinking water before coffee
• Sending one honest text
• Taking a five-minute walk
• Showing up to one meeting
• Going to bed instead of pushing through
• Choosing alignment over approval

These don’t look impressive.
But they keep people alive.

And over time, they change everything.

For me, becoming more aligned has meant choosing habits that respect who I am now - not who I think I should be.
That shift alone has made growth feel possible instead of punishing.

🤝 Connection

So here’s the invitation for this new year:

Don’t ask, “What should I fix?”​
Ask, “What small good thing helps me stay?”

Pick 2–3 practices that support:

• Your body
• Your mind
• Your connection to others

That’s it.
No reinvention required.

And if you miss a day?
You’re not failing.
You’re human.

Becoming happens quietly.
One small good thing at a time.

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👉 To support this approach, I created a FREE Small Good Things Worksheet you can use to choose gentle, sustainable habits - alongside the FREE After-the-Holidays Toolkit for continued support through the winter months.

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👉 Click here for the Worksheet and here for the Toolkit today!

We don’t get better by overwhelming ourselves.
We get better by staying.

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​ Tobias​
From Bitter to Better
🌐 tobiasneal.me | 📸 @tobias.neal​

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🖤 Bitterness ends here. But the work keeps going.