Forget January; September is the best time of year to make new resolutions. It has the same clean-slate feeling of the new year but not the depressing, sober quality of midwinter. It’s full of promise and clarity and action; it’s time to get your shit together. In France, where it’s normal to spend all of August en vacances , the beginning of September is known as la rentrée : a point of reentry where you take stock and organize yourself for the year ahead.

Of course, September and January do share one downside — the dull hangover that follows a period of behaving like you have an indestructible liver and bank account. Late summer is a free-for-all, a liminal space to float away from rules, emails, and news alerts about tariffs and economic doom. There are trips to take, sales to sh

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