If you’re looking to shake your life up or hit the reset button, here’s as good a place to start as any: Hack Yourself, an essay on self-reinvention by writer Michael Montoure. I first saw this piece several years ago, and though I’m usually unmoved by the great majority of nonsense written under the heading of “self-help literature,” I found that Monture’s essay voiced, in a concise way, a lot of things we all know but still need to be reminded of from time to time. Well worth the five minutes it takes to read it. But be careful, if you’re like me you might find yourself suddenly packing up and moving to another continent because you’ve decided that’s who you are now.

And to that, I say go for it.