This is where most people stop

Apr 16

I was interviewed recently about reinvention, and something I said has been staying with me:

If you don’t lead your life, it will fill in the blanks for you.

It sounds simple.

But most of us don’t actually stop and ask ourselves what we want next.

We just keep going.

We follow what worked.
What made sense at the time.
What we thought we were supposed to want.

And then something shifts.

And instead of paying attention to it—

we talk ourselves out of it.

That’s the moment we get in our own way.

Because change doesn’t start with a plan.

It starts with permission.

Permission to want something different.
Permission to imagine more for yourself.
Permission to ask:

What do I want next?

If you’re in that space right now, you’re not behind.

You’re at the beginning of something.

You don’t need to have the answer yet.

You just need to stay in the question a little longer than you normally would.

This is the moment my novel Again, Only More Like You captures.

Not after everything is figured out.

But right here—when something is shifting, and you’re deciding whether to follow it.

And this month, I’m opening a small, private Next Chapter Session for readers who are in this exact moment.

A space for people who are asking themselves:

👉 What do I want next?👉 What might be possible if I actually followed this?

🗓 Wednesday, May 13 at 12pm ET

If this is where you are right now, I’d love to have you in the room.

I’m opening this session to readers of Again, Only More Like You—as a space to reflect on what’s shifting, and what might come next.

To join us:

I’ll send you the session details personally.

(Available through April 29)

Catalina Margulis

Trust your new life. Stay the course.