It’s the middle of August and a very quiet, very convincing voice in the back of your mind has started doing the math on your year and concluding that whatever you wanted in 2026, it’s too late to get it now.

This episode is here to silence that voice.

In this episode, Nikki makes the case that the calendar has never been your deadline, the hours were never the variable that mattered, and the 4 months sitting in front of you right now are not the leftovers of the year — they’re the perfect sized container.

Drawing on 4-day workweek research conducted across six countries, her own podcast growth story, and the results her clients produce inside small, decisive windows, Nikki breaks down why precision and decisiveness outperform volume every single time, and what it actually looks like to use what’s left of this year instead of filing it under “didn’t happen.”

In this episode you’ll learn:

• Why “it’s too late” is a lie built on a formula that was never actually true

• What results are actually made of and why it’s not hours

• How to think in three windows instead of one, and why most goals aren’t as big as you’ve been treating them

• What the largest 4-day workweek study ever conducted says about volume, precision, and output

• The one thing you need to do to conserve energy instead of spending it and why this approach is perfect for the most exhausted folks

Mentioned in this episode:

• Episode 4: Interrupting Quitters Day.TAP HERE to listen.

• Episode 5: How to Reignite Your Resolution.TAP HERE to listen.

• Episode 22: Manifestation from Personal Growth to Collective Liberation. TAP HERE to listen.

• Episode 23: Manifestation and Money: Tools for Collective Liberation.TAP HERE to listen.

Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual.⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣

Where do we go from here?

• To learn more about what you heard on the podcast today, visit nikkiblak.com.

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Through an intersectional feminist lens, Nikki helps women and femmes examine the systems shaping their lives, relationships, work, money, ambition, caregiving, and self-worth so they can build lives rooted in liberation, not extraction.

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Next episode: Episode 91: Why your business isn’t growing even though you’re doing everything right