The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Your Year of Choosing the Better Comfort. This is the year you discover that the ease you create for everyone else can be claimed for yourself too, and the room does not fall apart when you do. A standing arrangement you've kept going out of habit gets renegotiated in June, and the new version fits everyone better, including you. By late summer, people notice how naturally a gathering settles when you arrive, and one of them finally says it out loud. A want you've been quietly setting aside gets its turn this year, and it costs you nothing you actually needed. Start with the small ask, the one you'd usually skip. You are the reason the room holds, and that gift grows warmer when you let it include you. The year ahead has a seat saved for what you want.