The Janus Plan: A No-Resolutions Path to Begin Your Year with Intention

Not just a reset, but a reckoning. A ritual. A reweaving of your life’s patterns.

Most goal‑setting advice urges you to move faster, aim higher, and push harder. Rarely does it present a more fundamental question: What are you building your life toward—and why?

The Janus Plan is not another New Year’s resolutions book. Inspired by Janus, the Roman god of thresholds and beginnings, it offers a grounded, practical framework for goal setting—one that welcomes new beginnings through reflection before action and clarity before urgency.

Rather than chasing endless productivity, this book helps you pause, take stock, and move forward with intention.

Whether you are a student starting out, a professional rethinking your rhythms, a retiree entering a new chapter, or simply someone who’s ready for a more honest year, The Janus Plan meets you where you are. It is equally powerful when used individually or shared, making it a meaningful guide for families, couples, and teams who want to reflect together, set a new direction, and move forward in an aligned manner.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Clarify the values that shape your direction and decisions
• Build monthly and quarterly practices that keep you aligned
• Create vision practices grounded in identity and purpose—not pressure
• Use simple productivity tools to support sustainable achievement
• Turn good intentions into consistent, meaningful progress

The book is ideal for readers and groups interested in intentional living, reflective goal setting, sustainable productivity, and personal development with depth.

If you’re tired of resolutions that fade and routines that don’t stick, The Janus Plan offers something different: a way to look backward with honesty so you can move forward with purpose.

This is your threshold between the old and the new.

Step through it with intention.

Jobert E. Abueva has a long-standing career as a global marketer for corporate, start-up, and nonprofit entities and is the author of the multi-award-winning Boy Wander: A Coming of Age Memoir (Rattling Good Yarns Press). He is the inaugural recipient of the Lambda Literary J. Michael Samuel Prize and winner of the Writer's Advice Flash Memoir contest. Other accolades include the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation award for historical short fiction, Fortune "Leaders of the 21st Century" essay competition, and two National Arts Club scholarships for nonfiction. His work has appeared in various anthologies and publications, including The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fortune, and Entrepreneur.Jobert holds degrees from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (BA, Economics) and Columbia Business School (MBA, Marketing). He is associate vice president of global philanthropy at ETS, a global education and talent solutions company, and associate vice president of marketing for its ETS Research Institute. He also serves on the WHYY Community Advisory Board and is on the Board of Directors at the ACME Screening Room (Lambertville, NJ) and at Lambda Literary. The Janus Plan is his second book.For newsletters, workshops, author appearances, resources, and more, log on to joberteabueva.com.