The Pivot Year

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by Brianna Wiest. This is the year you change your life. International bestseller in 40+ languages, Wiest is one of the most widely-read voices in contemporary personal development . Featured in People Magazine, TODAY, Yoga Journal, Harper's Bazaar, and Women.com, which named "The Pivot Year" one of the best books of the 2020s. This book was born from Wiest's own journals. The book is 365 daily meditations, one for each day of the year, each one short enough to read in minutes and spacious enough to stay with you for hours. The intended use is specific: read one passage in the morning, then let it live in you throughout the day — returning to it in the in-between moments, the commute, the pause before a decision, the quiet before sleep. The goal of each page is not to give you an answer, but to introduce an idea that provokes a series of questions within you. Questions about the parameters of your fear. Your true intentions. What's actually holding you back. What you would do if you weren't waiting to feel ready. The themes across the 365 entries move through the full terrain of a year spent becoming: courage and self-doubt, purpose and distraction, letting go and beginning again, the gap between who you are and who you sense you could be, the daily practice of choosing yourself in small ways before the big choices ever arrive. The meditations are philosophical rather than prescriptive — they don't tell you what to do; they change the way you see your situation so that what to do becomes clearer on its own. Hoda Kotb wrote in People Magazine that Wiest "speaks to your soul." Yoga Journal described the collection as drawing readers in and compelling them to stay "long enough to start to understand how to elicit more from yourself than you perhaps thought was there." Harper's Bazaar said it might help readers "finish that project or land that new job by encouraging a different way of thinking." Perfect for readers who: -Are standing at a genuine threshold — a career change, a relationship ending, a creative calling they keep deferring, a life that no longer fits — and need daily support for the long, non-linear work of transition -Want a morning ritual that does more than motivate: one that slowly rewires how they think about what's possible - Show more