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葉月 (hazuki) "August" or "the month of leaves"

Like many countries, Japan uses a 12-month calendar. The names are very simple. January is literally "Month one", February is "Month two", etc:

一月 = January

二月 = February

However, before the Meiji Restoration (mid-1800s) it was common to use an older 12-month system. These months’ names referenced the weather and the seasons (similar to the French Revolutionary calendar).

August is 葉月.

葉 = leaf/leaves

月 = month

So what does August have to do with leaves?

It is likely a reference to 紅葉, red autumn leaves, which many Japanese people admire, almost as much as the cherry blossom in spring.

Of course, the autumn leaf season is actually more likely to begin in September or October.

However the old calendar system is based on a lunar calendar with 28 days in each month, meaning that the months don’t fit into a year exactly. Gradually the calendar becomes more and more out of alignment with the seasons, and eventually August becomes the month to go autumn leaf viewing!

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Goals are not about achievement. They're about who you become in the process. You think you're working on your goals. But in reality, they're working on you. Every hard choice, every hour behind the desk and in the gym, every early morning, every sacrifice, failure and moment of doubt - it's not just progress. It's stimulus. And stimulus forges growth. Your goals demand you to kill the weaker parts of yourself. The laziness. The fear. The comfort-addicted version of you that can't carry the weight of what you're asking for. You'll want to give up. You'll tell yourself "you'll do it tomorrow". But that's the resistance you must overcome, that's the test your ambition gives you to see how badly you want it. In the end, you don't rise to your goals. You grow into them. They break you. Then they build you.