The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Your Year of the Right Words. This is the year you notice what you leave behind in a room, the thing people repeat back to you weeks later, the sentence that landed when nobody else could find it. In April, you say the steadying thing in a hard conversation, and someone keeps it like a small stone in a pocket. By midsummer, a few plain words you offer almost without thinking become the reason a friend finally moves. People will start telling you that you have a way of saying things, and you do, and it is time you believed them. Say the small true sentence first, even when it feels too simple. The year ahead rewards the one who starts the talking. What you carry out of every room is more than you ever realize walking in.