There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now.

What's going to happen to the economy?

Which Fox TV host is going to be nominated to an important cabinet position next?

Is RFK Jr. going to insist that we all get brainworms?

I don't have answers to any of these questions, unfortunately.

But I do know that when we spin out about those questions, we're distracted from

asking ourselves a much more important question, which is like, who am I going to be right now,

no matter what happens? I don't know what's going to happen in politics or the news in 2025,

but I do get to decide who I'm going to be in 2025. When we fix it on what's happening

outside of ourselves to determine our future, we feel hopeless, we feel helpless, we feel

disempowered. But we always get to decide who we're going to be. And I think it's so important

in this time between now and the end of the year to decide on purpose,

who are you going to be in 2025?

It is more important than ever that we grow, not shrink, that we stand up tall and we use

our voices and we move forward into becoming the people that we want to be. If we wait around for the perfect

conditions to grow and evolve, we will be waiting forever. I have a specific technique that I use

when I want to call the next version of myself into being. And it's called connecting to your

feminist future self. It's not about your future self being a feminist

activist, although it's totally awesome if she wants to be. It's about your future self being a

version of you that has grown beyond some or all of the sexist social programming that your

brain has internalized. It's that programming that keeps you worried about

what other people think, keeps you trying to do things perfectly and giving up when they don't

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