Today, when the clock strikes 11:59 PM on June 22^nd, we’ll have completed 47.4 percent of 2025.

But this newsletter isn’t about making the most of the remaining 50 percent. You already have thousands of blogs online telling you how to do that.

Today, I want to talk to you about the few days that lie in between—the 2.6 percent of the year that you’ll live through until the first of July. 

Because if you get it right, you’ll get the remaining 50 percent right too.

Why Your Dream Life is Still Eluding You…

I’m someone who believes in the big and bold.

I love making vision boards, writing my ultimate goals, and imagining my dream life one, ten, twenty years from now.

But for the longest time, I struggled to turn those visions into reality.

The daydreams sounded good, but my actions? Not so much. I created intricate plans on paper, but the moment I faced a challenge, I backed off. The timelines I had once set with bold ambition were slowly turning into a dark reminder of my incompetence.

I believed I could do everything I wanted, but I never did. I dreamed of it, but I didn’t do it. And that’s a big difference.

Because dreams come easily to the mind, but not to the hand. Everybody thinks they are extraordinary in their heads, but their hands and efforts don’t reflect the same.

Even though I don’t like to admit it, I was in that category for a long time.

And the reason (like every other mistake in the world) is crystal-clear in hindsight.

My dreams were up too high, but my actions were down too low. There was dissonance and disharmony that kept eating away at my confidence. And the longer I ignored the truth, the harder it became to feel that conviction again.

How to Believe in Your Dreams Again:

I know you have big goals. And if you’ve failed, I also know how it feels to be disappointed, lost, confused, and disillusioned. The picture was perfect in your head, but reality just turned out to be so different, that too in an ugly way.

And what hurts most isn’t the fact that you failed, but the fact that you were naïve enough to think this could work. You mock yourself inside your head for believing in such crazy dreams. You say, “You know what? They were right. These things only happen in movies. I should reset my expectations.”

But I’ll tell you right now that’s the worst thing you can do.

Because it’s illogical, irrational, and irresponsible. And if you’re reading this newsletter 25 weeks into the year, I know for a fact that you are none of those things.

The problem isn’t in the inherent impossibility of a dream, but in the flawed approach you take for achieving it.

Said differently, your goals are up too high, actions are down too low, but progress happens in the middle. You’re never there, so of course, things don’t work out the way you’d want them to. And when reality finally catches up, you blame the dream for being impossible instead of looking within to recognize that it’s your fault, that you never took the right actions.

It might sound like I’m blaming you. But that’s because I am! Your dreams are not on the other side of heaven’s gate. They’re on the other side of your ability to get things done. That might sound harsh, but it’s true.

And that’s why the coming 2.6 percent of the year matters so much.

Make a Promise, Then Make it Happen:

You know what most of the world will do over the next week? They’ll sit with reflection questions, write out a hundred different perspectives, call it ‘clarity’, and then set ambitious goals for the second half.

It will be like January all over again, but the only difference is that their enthusiasm will melt much faster, just like an ice cube under the July sun.

They’ll be back in this cycle where they dream big but don’t know how to make it happen, and then end up disappointed.

This year, you won’t be one of them.

You will be the one who makes things happen. You’ll accept reality as it is and take charge of your life—only if you do this one thing before the first of July.

Make a promise to yourself. Any promise. Challenge yourself to do one thing that you know will be uncomfortable and hard. Don’t think about how it will lead you to your goals in five years. Just focus on the next seven days.

Make that your main goal. Then, make it happen.

Translating a ten-year vision into an action step for today is challenging. But it’s very easy to do it when the vision is only week-long. You can quickly figure out what you need to do, and then your only job is to do it.

Run every day. Write 20000 words. Code the app for your startup idea. Take up the intensive course you’re putting off and complete half of it. I don’t care what you do as long as it’s meaningful, challenging, and uncomfortable.

When you’re at the finish line with an accomplishment in hand, you’d have done something that felt impossible for a long time: you would be living your dream life.

You see the dream today. A week later, you will live it.

And that experience will teach you more than any clarity you find with questions that just beat around the bush. You will have mastered the most valuable skill of making things happen, and then you just implement it for the next month, the next quarter, the next six months, the next year, the next decade, and the ones after that.

Because that’s all it takes to live your dream life: Make a promise, then make it happen.

So, what dream are you going to live in the seven days?