Year-end pressure is at its peak. Deadlines tighten. Energy stretches thin. Focus fragments. Attention spans shorten, patience wears down, and many people slip into a highly reactive mode. The default responses are familiar: push harder, work longer, use your willpower. In this mode, burnout is the inevitable outcome.  However, as we approach the beginning of a new year, I want to offer a different challenge; one centred on mindfully designing a life and work system that puts