What I Shared and Saved in January ✨

Thoughts, notes, and bits that made me 1% Wiser this month.

Every month, I come across ideas, quotes, and conversations that stay with me a little longer than the rest. Some I share with friends, others I save to enjoy again later.

This is a small collection of both: What I shared and saved in January. The thoughts, notes, and bits that made me 1% wiser this month.

Maybe one of them will do the same for you✨

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1-"I met God at the supermarket“

Almost every time I’ve read poetry, with a few exceptions here and there, I didn’t get it.
I can’t do the “don’t look for meaning in every word, just feel the vibe of the thing.”

It feels like being left out of a special, beautiful club. As if there were those who get poetry, and those who don’t, and I was in the second group.

But this week I made a beautiful discovery: Lucas Jones.
Fireworks in my head, some water in my eyes. He made me feel something, instantly. Here’s a little extract:

It didn’t take long before I binge-watched every one of these on his Instagram, made my husband watch a couple with me, and ordered his book I Still Believe in Miracles. I’m also planning to get the audiobook because I want to hear him read every poem himself. I’m hooked.

If you know of other poets I might love, please let me know in the comments. I’m hungry for more.

2- A Podcast Episode to Start 2026 With

I listened to this entire two-and-a-half-hour conversation between Chris Williamson and Steven Bartlett over four commutes to and from work. It felt intimate and thoughtful and wise. A really good podcast to start the year with, when many of us are already in a reflective headspace.

Here are the parts that spoke to me the most:

“The single best question to work out what you should be doing next year: What would have to happen by the end of 2026 for me to look back on 2026 and consider it a success?”

“[…] you don't fix internal voids with external accolades.”

“The answers you’re seeking are in the silence you’re avoiding.”

“[…] problems are a feature of life, not a bug. There will never come a time when you have no problems.
What did you you think you were going to wake up one day and there be no more problems? Like completing a video game level and going to a map where there's nothing there, right?
Things are always going to incur problems.”

3- A Note I loved

Eleni Rizopoulou shared this beautiful note.

And this is science-backed. Research shows that the way we interpret our own stress defines whether it harms or helps us.

“This is awful” and “this is exciting” don’t have the same effect on our bodies.

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That’s it for this month’s collection! If one of them stays with you too, then it’s done its job ✨

Here’s to getting 1% wiser, one idea at a time.

What’s one idea, quote, or moment that lingered this month? Let me know in the comments👇🏼

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