Brianna Wiest

Brianna is the bestselling author of the books 101 Essays The Will Change The Way You Think, The Mountain Is You, The Pivot Year, and more.

Brianna Wiest, author of The Pivot Year, on the most critical actions you can take to change your life before 2026 begins.

Often, feeling stuck isn’t about not having enough momentum or willpower, but about being in misalignment with your needs, wants and strategies.

It is a common misconception I have come to realize throughout my life. Positive change is often planted through seeds that can sometimes make us feel more uncertain, fearful, and anxious than anything else.

Best-selling author Brianna Wiest shows how the smallest parts of our daily lives can be signs of meaningful progress, even when we feel like we’re not moving forward.

When my great-grandmother died, my grandmother spent the time before the viewing hours with her wheelchair propped up next to her mother’s casket, hand inside, forehead down on the rim, crying and talking.

“Being confident” has almost become unrealistically lauded at this point – directly in proportion with how insecure we feel.

When all is said and done, my life is pretty relaxed. People don’t expect me to say that, but it’s true. The only stress I have is the unnecessary stress I make for myself.

1. They share everything they’re feeling. (Everything.) There’s nothing more loving and engaging to an inherently creative person than letting you into their emotional lives, and their emotional lives include how they felt about their morning coffee. 2.

A beautiful life is not stumbled upon, it is built. It is chosen. It is nurtured over the years. A beautiful life is made from the heart, not the head.

People take on the characteristics of those who have most deeply hurt them. Within their unkindness, they are actually revealing to you the shape of their wound.

In color psychology, being drawn to the color black – especially in clothing – often signals a desire to reclaim one’s power.

1. It’s not even just easy to let work take over your life, it’s the default you revert to if you aren’t careful. It’s hard to strike a balance when you kind of don’t care about your social life as much…

There’s something about seeing how ancient wisdom applies to a modern life that makes everything seem that much more connected.

1. That humans are a self-healing species. 2. The infinitude of people wiser and more talented than I, because of whom I will always be able to learn more, see differently, understand better, and generally be entertained. 3.

People take on the characteristics of those who have most deeply hurt them. Within their unkindness, they are actually revealing to you the shape of their wound.

1. The day you stop doubting yourself is the day you stop growing. 2. Self-doubt is not the enemy. The willingness to be unsure is the openness to learn. 3.

I used to think that to have self-respect, you had to be aggressive about it.