The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Your Year of Earned Pride. This is the year you learn how good it feels to stand behind something you built before you felt sure of it. A thing you began too early, half-ready, with your heart thumping, becomes the very thing people point to by spring. You will be praised, and you will take it cleanly, without the old flinch that mistakes confidence for showing off. There is a difference, and this is the year you live inside it. By autumn, someone asks you how you knew it would work, and the honest answer is that you didn't, you simply started. I love that this is becoming your signature move. Begin the next bold thing while your knees are still a little weak. Readiness arrives after you start, never before, and you already know this in your bones.