The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Your Year of the Open Hand. This is the year you discover that your generosity was always confidence wearing its most beautiful face. A toast you offer in spring lands so perfectly that people quote it back to you for months, and you realize the right words have always come easy to you because you mean them. By midsummer, you give something away freely that someone needed badly, and the giving costs you nothing you miss. Watch what comes back, in its own time, through a door you forgot you opened. Someone tells you, plainly, that your warmth made them braver. I love that you never count what you give. Keep starting the conversations, keep offering the first kind word. The year rewards exactly the open-handedness you were already born to.