Joanna | Life Reset

I write about the small rules we inherit, the ones we finally question, and the ordinary resets that follow. Author of Life Reset.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

You don't fix a heavy day by being useful.

On days when the wider world feels heavy, I reach for small things that end. A chapter. A call with an old friend. Supper eaten slowly. None of it fixes anything. Each one just has an ending I can see, and today that's enough to stand on.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

@realJohnBlanche That meeting is usually more for them than for you. By the time you're sitting in it, the decision was made somewhere quieter. How's the first month been on the practical side, the days and the routines?

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

Someone online resigned and management is now trying to talk them round. I'd offer a proper handover and leave the staffing gap with the people paid to fill it. One kind, final line: 'I'll leave things in good shape, and my last day stays as it is.'.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

@ChrisWillx I think deciding in advance is the useful part. It goes wrong when locking in only means adding things. A hard season usually goes better if you also decide what to drop, because dark months rarely have room for more.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

Rights halls run on an idea I'm slow to apply at home. A book goes further once someone else carries it. Another publisher takes it into a language its author can't sell in, and nobody calls that giving up. I still hold the school-forms folder like it only counts if it's mine.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

Pressing a crossing button that does nothing still feels like doing something. Homes have those too. 'Someone needs to sign the trip form' gets said, everyone hears it, and the form sits by the kettle. Now I ask one person, by Friday. Which request at home never reaches anyone?

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

Most crosswalk buttons in New York don't do anything.

New York Times once reported that more than 2,500 of the city's 3,250 walk buttons were "mechanical placebos."

What does this say about what keeps us going? 🧵

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

Nobody carries a book alone at a rights fair. Agent, editor, translator and sales team each hold one part. When a part runs late, they move the date and nobody's character comes into it. I'm borrowing that. Name my part, say plainly which isn't mine, skip the blame.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

Breakthrough events make great films because it all happens in one room. The change I've seen turns up later, in the family calendar, when someone covers the school run so the promise made in that room can be kept. Who held things together after your last big decision?

[Tony Robbins @TonyRobbins]

This year marked 10 YEARS since TONY ROBBINS: I AM NOT YOUR GURU premiered on Netflix and gave the world a look inside Date With Destiny. 🎥🍿

I'll never forget sitting side by side with @joeberlinger in a theater, watching people see it for the very first time.

No script. No retakes. Just REAL people having REAL breakthroughs. 🙏

Joe and his team took a 6-day, 70+ hour program and somehow did it justice in under 2 hours. A decade later, I still hear from people every single day whose lives changed because of this film.

Joe, thank you for your open mind, your critical eye, and the courage to show it exactly as it happened.

Have you seen it? What was your biggest takeaway? 👇

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

I like the escalators here. Stand on one side, walk on the other, and nobody has to carry anyone else's pace. A school-run rota works the same way once it's written down. Kept in one person's head, it becomes a grudge with nobody to aim it at.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

@MercurioNevio @RyanHoliday 3pm is exactly when they find me, usually between a pickup time and an unfinished paragraph. Calling it balance is generous, but I'll take it.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

@realJohnBlanche @dailystoic The wet socks are the honest bit. Steady usually turns up halfway through a walk for me, never in the doorway while I'm deciding whether to go.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

@MercurioNevio @RyanHoliday Firmly the mundane. Mara, my AI assistant, does calendars, packing lists and reminders. The big questions stay with me, and they usually turn up around 3pm on a Tuesday, when what I actually need is a nudge to eat lunch.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

Hit the ground running is fine advice from people who slept. I've arrived after a night of travel. I collect my badge this afternoon, so this morning is water, daylight and one slow coffee. Ambition keeps for a few hours. What won't you do the morning after a long trip?

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

Every networking guide says collect contacts. Each card is a follow-up I'll owe in a fortnight, at home, behind on the washing. So this week I only swap details when I already know what I'd write next. How many follow-ups from your last event did you actually send?

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

Reinvention advice loves a clean slate. Most second-half stories I've heard go the other way. People keep the skill and leave the setting. A project manager still runs projects, just not for a boss who emails on Sunday. Which skill would you keep, and which setting goes?

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

A badge queue is the most honest hour at any trade event. Nobody has pitched yet, everyone waits the same, and the paper tote they hand you is heavier than it has any right to be. By tomorrow the halls will have sorted us. This afternoon I get to enjoy the queue.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

Nobody needs me until this afternoon. At home this hour is packed lunches, a lost shoe and a form that needed signing yesterday. My own book says guard the first hour. I've already tried to fill this one twice. What do you do with your first free hour somewhere new?

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

@TalkingOreos @RyanHoliday Ha, fair trade. I'll hold up my end once the school run admin stops eating my mornings.

[Joanna | Life Reset @LifeResetBook]

@MercurioNevio @RyanHoliday Clarity rarely books ahead, does it? I won't pretend to a tidy diary habit. If something useful turns up mid-afternoon, I say it to Mara, my AI assistant, before the kettle wins. When do yours tend to arrive?

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

This is exactly why I’ve become such a fan of exercise snacks.

A few minutes of breathless effort can deliver a surprisingly large biological signal.

Your cells don’t care whether the signal came from a gym. Five minutes can restart the habit and still deliver a meaningful physiological stimulus.