November has a strange kind of pressure. The year is almost over, holiday plans start to crowd the calendar, daylight gets shorter, and routines that felt steady in September can begin to slip. A reset helps because it gives the month a job: protect what matters before the busiest stretch begins. This is not a call to overhaul everything. Most people do better with small, repeatable changes than with dramatic plans. Behavioral scientists often point to “friction” as a major f