January 1 doesn’t have any actual power. It’s a date like any other, and the only reason it feels significant is that everyone agreed to treat it that way.
A lot of people wait for it anyway, as if starting on a specific day will make the habit stick better than starting today would. It won’t. The date isn’t what makes something last. Repetition is what makes something last, and repetition can start on any day of the year.
Most New Year’s resolutions fail within a few weeks, not because people picked the wrong date but because the date was never the variable that mattered. The habit itself either works or it doesn’t, independent of when it began.
If you’ve been waiting for some symbolic moment to start reading, you can stop waiting. There isn’t one coming that’s any better than today.
You just start with this week’s readings and keep going from there.
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