We’ve all been there.

You step outside one morning, and suddenly, it feels like spring. The bitter cold lifts, the grey sky cracks open to reveal something resembling blue, and the sun—the actual sun!—warms your skin for the first time in months.

Immediately, we declare: Spring is here! We’ve made it! Winter is over!

And then…

James Clear said it best in Atomic Habits: “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

As a regular visitor to Funkytown there are lessons that I can learn about what caused a trip.