The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Your Year of Belonging on Your Own Terms. This is the year you discover that the people who matter were never asking you to blend in, and that the room got better the moment you stopped trying to. A practice you started almost by accident, just to keep yourself honest, becomes the thing people point to and ask how you did it. By spring, a small group forms around the way you do things, not the way everyone does things. Someone you admire pulls you closer precisely because you refused to round yourself off to fit. I love watching this one arrive for you. The habit you kept up when no one was clapping turns out to be the foundation everything stands on. Walk into the year exactly as you are. The fit you have been hunting for was waiting for you to stop shrinking.