The Pivot Year

- #1 Amazon bestselling author
- International bestseller in 20+ languages
- One of the most widely-read voices in contemporary personal development.
- Featured in People Magazine, TODAY, Yoga Journal, Harper's Bazaar, and Women.com, which named "The Pivot Year" one of the best books of the 2020s.
This book was born from Wiest's own journals.
While navigating her own pivot — building a writing and publishing career she felt deeply called toward but believed had almost no chance of working — Wiest kept detailed journals of the thoughts, questions, and perceptual shifts that helped her move forward. When she read back through them, she realized she had unknowingly written a collection of field notes — a guidebook of sorts to expanding your perception of your own potential. Those field notes became "The Pivot Year."
The book is 365 daily meditations, one for each day of the year, each one short enough to read in minutes and spacious enough to stay with you for hours. The intended use is specific: read one passage in the morning, then let it live in you throughout the day — returning to it in the in-between moments, the commute, the pause before a decision, the quiet before sleep. The goal of each page is not to give you an answer, but to introduce an idea that provokes a series of questions within you. Questions about the parameters of your fear. Your true intentions. What's actually holding you back. What you would do if you weren't waiting to feel ready.
The themes across the 365 entries move through the full terrain of a year spent becoming: courage and self-doubt, purpose and distraction, letting go and beginning again, the gap between who you are and who you sense you could be, the daily practice of choosing yourself in small ways before the big choices ever arrive. The meditations are philosophical rather than prescriptive — they don't tell you what to do; they change the way you see your situation so that what to do becomes clearer on its own.
Hoda Kotb wrote in People Magazine that Wiest "speaks to your soul." Yoga Journal described the collection as drawing readers in and compelling them to stay "long enough to start to understand how to elicit more from yourself than you perhaps thought was there." Harper's Bazaar said it might help readers "finish that project or land that new job by encouraging a different way of thinking."
Perfect for readers who:
- Are standing at a genuine threshold — a career change, a relationship ending, a creative calling they keep deferring, a life that no longer fits — and need daily support for the long, non-linear work of transition
- Want a morning ritual that does more than motivate: one that slowly rewires how they think about what's possible
- Read "101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think" or "The Mountain Is You" and want to stay in Wiest's voice as a daily companion across an entire year
- Are drawn to the format of "The Daily Stoic" or Sarah Young's "Jesus Calling" but want something rooted in psychological and philosophical self-inquiry rather than ancient philosophy or faith
- Are gifting something meaningful to someone they know is in the middle of a hard, important year
A Thought Catalog Books imprint. Of the three major Wiest titles, "The Pivot Year" is the one designed to be lived in rather than read through — a year-long companion rather than a single sitting. For the reader who has already found this book and wants to deepen the self-sabotage work it surfaces, the next step is "The Mountain Is You." Read more