Setting Your "No" Goals for '26

Creating a Cut List to Start Your Year Out Right

Most goals are drawn up as lists of things we mean to do. Fewer are written as lists of what we mean to refuse. But the refusals matter just as much. Call it a cut list if you like: the deliberate pruning of a life that has grown too crowded. You don’t only build a good life by adding to it. Sometimes you have to take a knife to it.

With age, I’ve learne…