- The Creative
- Posts
- Winter In Michigan
Winter In Michigan
Cold days, quiet work, and signs of spring you almost miss.
Brian Town
February 08, 2026
In partnership with
Winter in Michigan is tough.
It’s cold.
It’s gray.
The kind of quiet that can feel peaceful one moment and heavy the next.
This is the season where everything slows down whether you want it to or not.
Projects lose momentum. Motivation dips. Even your thoughts don’t always line up cleanly.
And maybe that’s what makes winter hard — it doesn’t give you much feedback.
No clear signals.
No obvious progress.
Just long stretches where you’re not entirely sure where everything stands.
If that’s you right now, nothing’s wrong.
You’re not off track.
You’re just in winter.
This isn’t a season for big clarity or bold reinvention.
It’s a season for staying connected.
Getting outside even when it’s cold.
Taking a walk when it would be easier to stay in.
Letting your body move a little instead of living entirely in your head.
You don’t go outside to fix anything.
You go outside to remember you’re still here.
And even now — even with snow on the ground — there are signs.
It’s staying light a little later.
A few more birds are active.
And under feet of snow, the ground — still frozen — knows spring is close.
It doesn’t rush.
It doesn’t force anything.
It just waits, quietly preparing.
Sunday doesn’t ask you to solve your life.
It asks you to notice it.
Where you’re tired.
Where you’re steady.
Where you’re quietly doing better than you think.
You don’t need everything figured out right now.
You don’t need the next big idea.
Winter doesn’t ask you to bloom.
It asks you to endure — gently.
And to trust that the season will change, even if it still feels far away.
The Cozy Winter Ritual Behind My Energy and Glow ✨
Winter calls for rituals that actually make you feel amazing—and Pique’s Sun Goddess Matcha is mine. It delivers clean, focused energy with zero jitters, supports glowing skin and gentle detox, and feels deeply grounding on cold mornings. Smooth, ceremonial-grade, and crave-worthy, it’s the easiest way to start winter days clear, energized, and glowing from the inside out
3 Things Worth Paying Attention To
1. Winter shrinks your margin
In summer, you can wing it and still feel okay. In winter, that same approach costs more.
If you feel more irritable, more tired, or more “behind” than usual, that might simply be a margin problem — not a motivation problem.
2. Your nervous system needs daylight and movement
Not a workout plan. Not a big comeback story.
Just some light in your eyes and a little movement in your body. It changes the whole day.
3. “Stuck” is often just “unclear”
When you don’t know where everything is at, it’s tempting to call it stuck.
But most of the time, you’re not stuck — you’re sorting. Winter is a sorting season.Pick one “winter proof” anchor that makes your day easier:
10 minutes outside before noon (walk to the mailbox counts)
write down the 3 things you’re doing tomorrow (before you go to bed)
hot shower + early lights-down (make sleep the win)
one room reset (kitchen counter, your desk, your truck — just one)
One anchor. Seven days.
You need a little traction.
1 Book
Wintering — Katherine May
A simple, honest book about the seasons we all go through — the literal ones and the life ones.
It doesn’t preach. It just helps you stop fighting the season you’re in and learn how to live inside it.
1 Quote
“Move at the speed of trust.”
— Stephen M. R. Covey
🤝 Let’s Connect
Want to talk business, legacy, or marketing that actually works?
Book 15 mins with me. No sales…just talk.
Brian
Ready to start your own newsletter? Use the link below:
P.S.
Don’t forget to pick up a copy of my new book, The Lonely CEO, on Amazon below!