June 12, 2026

Everyone forgets.

We forget the words. We forget the melody. We forget the thing we meant to say.

We forget. It’s human. It’s not the end of the world.

Except that sometimes it feels that way.

So much so that we start to worry ahead of time that we might forget.

We start noticing the places where we tend to lose our place and decide, “This is it! This is the thing I’m going to forget. I just know it!”

And we start unintentionally building what I call “catastrophes-in-waiting” into our pieces.

These are places where we tend to freeze up, where we anticipate things going wrong.

We see them coming and we feel ourselves fill with dread.

We just know that we’re going to fumble around in the same way we did the last time we tried it.

And, lo, we do.

Not because it was destined to be that way. But because we didn’t have a plan to ensure it went well.

We got too attached to the disastrous “what if??”s and forgot that we can do hard things. We do hard things all the time. Some hard things ask more of us than others. Some hard things require a plan.

B. J. Fogg’s Tiny Habits reminds us that reliable remembering isn’t about using more of the brain, it’s about making the important things automatic, so that we don’t have to think about them at all.

Like when your car finds its own way home, or you kick your shoes off at the front door. There was a time when you had to think about that. Now, those things just happen.

Individual songs and speeches can become habits, too. The hard parts can just roll off your tongue. You can forget to be anxious about them.

You just need a plan.

My group class will teach you how make one.

Send me an email with GROUP in the subject line if you’re interested in learning more. Enrollment opens July 6th, class starts July 16th.

I can’t wait to hear you!

Warmly,

Michèle