Today’s Five Star Minute asks you to notice how often you rush without realizing it.

Rushing through meals, conversations, and small moments pulls you out of your own life.

Today’s practice is simple but uncomfortable: choose one ordinary action and slow it down on purpose.

Drink water.

Walk to your car.

Brush your teeth.

Open your laptop.

Do it just a little more slowly than usual and notice what you feel when you’re actually present.

Rushing isn’t productivity.

It’s disconnection.

Slowing down — even once — is how you take your life back, one minute at a time.

Today’s Five Star Minute invites you to slow down before the year takes over.

Choose one word — not a goal, not a resolution — a feeling you want more of in your life.

Write it down. Place it somewhere you’ll see it.

Return to it throughout the day and notice what shifts.

One word.

One minute.

A different way to begin.