Q1 Is Over and You've Got 90 Days Worth of Excuses to Show For It — Now What?

LaTonya MeChelle
1 day ago
5 min read

Hey Honeybuns,

Before you scroll past this, I need you to do something for me.

Stop. Take a breath. And be honest with yourself — really honest — before you read another word.

It's the end of Q1 2026. Ninety days have passed. And I'm not going to warm you up slowly or ease you into this conversation, because you don't need to be soft right now. You need something real.

At the top of this year, you had a list. You had goals. Maybe a vision board. Maybe a new journal with your intentions written out in your best handwriting. You were fired up. You told yourself — and probably told other people — that this year was going to be different. You meant it when you said it.

So here's my question, and I need you to answer it honestly:

What have you actually done?

Let's Get Into It

Have you lost the weight you said you were going to lose? Or are you still in the same clothes, telling yourself you'll get serious on Monday — and Monday keeps moving?

Did you start that business? Make that call you've been putting off? Have the conversation you've been rehearsing in your head for weeks? Take the class? Apply for the opportunity? Show up for yourself the way you swore you would?

Or — and I'm asking this with love, not judgment — are you standing in the exact same spot you were on January 1st, just ninety days older?

Because here's what I've learned about Q1 excuses: they are the most comfortable excuses of the entire year. The holidays just ended. You were still getting into your groove. Life came at you fast. You needed time to settle in.

And now Q1 is gone.

But here's what I also know: the people who win the year don't wait for a perfect quarter. They decide.

What the Excuses Are Really Covering

Let me tell you what your unfinished goals are not about.

They're not about time. You have the same 24 hours as everyone who moved forward this quarter. They're not about money. People have built things from nothing with far less than what you're working with. They're not about resources, or circumstances, or the fact that life got busy — because life is always going to be busy.

Here's what they are about, and I'm going to say it plainly because you deserve the truth: Fear.

Fear of starting and failing — again. Fear of succeeding and not knowing how to sustain it. Fear of showing up differently and disrupting the version of yourself that everyone around you is comfortable with. Fear of finding out what you're actually capable of, because once you know that, you lose the last excuse for why your life isn't what you want it to be.

I want you to ask yourself a real question right now — not the surface answer, the one underneath it:

What am I actually afraid of?

Are you afraid of losing weight because then you'll have to show up in spaces that have always intimidated you? Are you afraid to start the business because if it doesn't work this time, you won't know what's left to try? Is your relationship with food carrying something that has absolutely nothing to do with calories?

Sit with that. Because THAT is what's standing between you and your goals. Not Q1. Not the clock. Not the circumstances. You.

I know that's uncomfortable. Good. Stay in it for a minute.

I'm Not Pointing Fingers — I'm Holding Up a Mirror

I want to be clear about something before we go further.

I'm not writing this from a place of having it all figured out. I'm writing this as someone who has done the work — and who knows exactly how easy it is to let the days slide when you're not holding yourself accountable to something bigger than your comfort.

The difference between where I stand now and where I was years ago isn't that I stopped struggling. It's that I stopped letting the struggle become my story. I stopped letting one slow quarter write the narrative for my whole year.

That's what I want for you. Not perfection. Not a flawless Q1 record. Just the decision to stop letting what didn't happen define what still can.

Q2 Is Not a Do-Over. It's a Decision.

A lot of people are going to treat Q2 like a fresh start. Like the calendar flipping gives them permission to wipe the slate, reset the clock, and pretend Q1 didn't happen.

But I need you to hear me on this: Q2 is not a do-over. It is a decision.

It is the moment — right now, today, with what you have, as who you currently are — where you choose whether you are the person who keeps pushing the start date, or the person who finally starts.

Ninety days from now, it will be the end of Q2. I want you to picture yourself sitting there looking back. What do you want to see? Three more months of the same cycle, dressed up in a different season? Or the beginning of something you can actually be proud of?

That choice is available to you right now. Not next week. Not when the timing feels right. Right now.

Here's What I Need You to Do Before You Close This Tab

Don't just read this and move on. That would be the easiest thing to do — and easy is exactly what got you to the end of Q1 without your goals.

Write down one goal — just one — that you said you were going to work on in Q1 that you haven't touched yet.
Write down the real reason you haven't started. Not the schedule. Not the finances. Not 'life got in the way.' The real reason. The one you haven't said out loud yet.
Look at it. Let it make you uncomfortable.
Do one thing toward that goal today. Not tomorrow. Not Monday. Today. Make the call. Buy the groceries. Open the laptop. Lace up the shoes. Sendthe email. Whatever the one thing is — do it today and let THAT be the moment your Q2 actually begins.

Because the next quarter is not coming to save you. You have to decide to save yourself.

If You're Ready to Stop Doing This Alone

Reading this and feeling it is one thing. Actually moving on it — consistently, with clarity, with someone in your corner who isn't going to let you slide — is another thing entirely. That's where I come in.

I work with people who are done talking about their goals and ready to actually build toward them. But I don't take on everyone, and I don't want you to book time with me just because this post is different today. I want to make sure that working together is actually the right move — for you and for me.

That's exactly what the Clarity Session is for. It's a real, focused conversation where we look at where you are, where you're trying to go, and what's actually been getting in the way. No fluff. No pressure. Just clarity.

If you're ready to get CLEAR on what you actually want—and how to communicate it in a way that builds instead of destroys—book your free 30-minute session with me to see if we can work together

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Drop a comment and let me know: What's the one Q1 goal you're carrying into Q2, and what's the real reason you haven't started yet? Let's be honest with each other.