Your Daily Boost – Episode 661

The Two-Minute Warning

There’s a strange calm that settles in right before things get loud. Christmas is three days away. Somehow this week is both slammed and oddly empty at the same time. Calendars are full, attention is fractured, everyone is tired, and yet…nothing feels urgent in the way it normally does. It’s like the world is holding its breath while simultaneously sprinting to the finish line. And then there’s the part nobody really talks about out loud: there are ten days left in the year. Ten.

That’s not a metaphor. That’s math.

Less than three percent of the year remains. If your phone battery were sitting at three percent, you wouldn’t be scrolling and wondering how it got there. You’d be making decisions. You’d be choosing what mattered. You’d be thinking about what needed to happen next so you didn’t wake up tomorrow with a dead screen and regret. That’s where we are right now.

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This Is the Two-Minute Warning

Not the dramatic, everything-hangs-in-the-balance kind. The quieter one. The one where you realize the game is still happening whether you’re paying attention or not.

Here’s the mistake we tend to make in moments like this: we panic. We start inventorying everything we didn’t finish. Every goal we didn’t quite reach. Every habit we meant to start. Every version of ourselves we thought we’d be by now. And suddenly the last ten days feel like a referendum instead of an opportunity. That’s not what this moment is for.

Two minutes in a football game isn’t about running every play you practiced all season. It’s about execution. Clarity. Knowing what matters now. You don’t install a new offense. You don’t try to become a different team. You run what you know works, protect the ball, and move with intention.

A lot can happen in two minutes. A lot can happen in ten days. But only if you stop trying to fix everything and start prioritizing the right things.

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What This Moment Is (And What It Isn’t)

This isn’t the moment to overhaul your life or declare that 2026 will be “your year” with a vision board and no sleep. That kind of pressure just creates noise.

What this moment is good for is honesty.

Clean decisions. Closing loops where you can. Letting go of the ones that don’t actually matter anymore. If there’s unfinished business that’s been quietly tapping you on the shoulder all year, now’s the time to decide what deserves your energy and what doesn’t. Not to finish everything — just to stop pretending everything is equally important. That alone will change how January feels.

If you feel behind (I'm gonna dive into this more tomorrow), here’s the truth: you don’t need to sprint. You need to aim. Panic wastes more time than patience ever will. And if you’re closer than you thought — steadier than you realized — then don’t coast. The game isn’t over yet. Run up the score. Finish strong. Do the small things well. Protect what you’ve built.

This week is chaotic by default. Family, obligations, expectations, emotions — it all stacks up fast. But chaos doesn’t have to mean panic. You can move through it quietly amused instead of overwhelmed. Focused instead of frantic. Present without trying to be everywhere at once.

That’s the difference between reacting to the clock and playing the moment.

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The Quiet Truth About the Last Ten Days

The year isn’t asking you to become someone new in the next ten days. It’s asking you to finish like you meant it. With intention. With awareness. With the confidence that you didn’t lose as much ground as you think.

💡 Ten days isn’t enough time to fix everything — but it’s plenty of time to choose what matters, protect what you’ve built, and finish the year the way you want to start the next one.