| Good morning, everybody. Christmas is over, and New Year's has yet to arrive. The family, once gathered, is dispersing. The decorations are going down. The recycling bins are full of wrapping paper. If you let it, the post-Christmas, pre-New Year's period can get you down. Don't let that happen. While many people find themselves drifting through a kind of no man's land, you can also see it as a land of opportunity. No one's really working, or if they are, no one expects much out of it. Everyone's schedule is weird. You don't really know what day it is. The normal rules of time and space don't seem to apply. You can really take advantage of that and make the most of this short period of, what, 5 days? 6 days? I don't even know off the top of my head.... Or you could do what most people do: Mope around because all the presents are gone and the happy times are over. Drown it all out in a blaze of binge-eating and drinking. Sit around and wait for the New Year to do anything productive or make any powerful changes. Then never even follow through on them. This is the no-man's land of time and opportunity. It's a treasured space. It's unlike any other time of the year. I liken it to the Twilight Zone. Make it one of those episodes of the Twilight Zone where there's a happy ending, where the protagonist is left in a better place than before, not a worse place. How are you going to use this weird subsection of time-space? Let me know in the comment section of Friday's Weekly Link Love. And enjoy the days ahead. Best, | 