The Big Halftime Show Featuring You

It’s time for your July 1 performance featuring the past, present, and future

July 1 is the high-impact, profound curiosity day of the year. It’s the big halftime show you’ve known about since January and it features you, exploring the past, present, and future in an intensive visualization of all three time zones, all in one day.

There you are—in the center of the year, on the center stage of your life, wide awake with the bright light of one of the longest days of the year. All of that light speeds up your brain to curiosity highs which happen only at halftime. It’s a spectacular show and a major production.

Here’s your curiosity at its best with these coming at you, whether you asked for it or not.

Past curiosity kicks in first. Exploration of the past 6 months sometimes extends to past experiences from your life and previous generations. Was the first half of 2024 an amazing time of transformation and major achievement? Was there a major transition, job change, death of someone close to you, move to a new home, graduation, or birth in your family? Did you write in a journal or create a digital record of your intentions each week? Did you create a personalized system for reflection so that you could keep track of what got done, what you decided to drop, and what else you added during each week? Curiosity toward the past helps us gain insights as to why we are the people we are becoming.

If you just experienced the best six months ever, then it’s time to celebrate. If you find yourself with more desires, aspirations, and daydreams than results, this is the big moment for resolve and course correction.

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That’s where the Fourth of July fireworks and vacations come in. A lot of that happens the first week in July. That brings us to the next set of thoughts that come from you during halftime.

Present curiosity kicks in next. That is when we appreciate little things more. We have deeper conversations with friends and family. We notice surroundings that were always there for us but overlooked in our rush to be more productive. The longer daylight creates the illusion of more time. Even if we are not on vacation and devote six or more hours a day to our income-generating, soul-satisfying work, there are still another eight or more hours for starting a new project, 18 holes of golf, or thinking creatively about potential challenges.

Future curiosity is the highlight of your halftime show. Now that you have considered everything about the first six months and feel like you are closer and more real about the final six months of the year, you start to imagine all sorts of possibilities. What about changes from the past, such as ChatGPT, will have a profound effect on your professional growth and personal well-being? What did you experience when you became more present and aware that will boost your mood and increase your sense of self-continuity? As you travel into the future with your mental explorations, did you come up with different possibilities? Did you discover something about yourself and your world that you did not know before halftime?

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Curiosity is a fundamental human trait that drives us to explore, learn, and grow. We bring it forward with creativity prompts, which only humans can respond to. Your memories, your lived trials and triumphs, your wishes and desires, your plans for the future, not knowing if you’ll be there or what.

There’s no artificial intelligence that has your curiosity or has lived your life. This is your big moment and you’ll be the best halftime show the world has seen if you allow curiosity to move you and come up with questions.

Here’s the best part. You do not need answers today or even during the first week of July. You need to permit yourself to step back, put your technology down, and go for a long hike into nature, or find a safe and sacred place to write down the deeper, harder-to-answer questions. These are questions about the self—internal and external explorations. These are questions about others, such as relationships and understanding others better. These are questions about the world, such as historical events, global issues, and future possibilities.

Write those questions in your journal or in whatever note system you use. Then step into the final six months with conviction and a better grip on what is true, what matters most, and why others want to connect with you.

If you stay with us, you have the rest of the year to answer those questions.