The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Your Year of Earned Warmth. This is the year your real pride does its best work, the kind that has nothing to prove and everything to give. A friendship you tended back to health last season keeps blooming, and one afternoon someone tells you, plainly, that your willingness to go first made all the difference. In spring, a room full of people watches you give credit away and likes you more for it. By midsummer, an introduction you make on a whim becomes a connection two people will thank you for at length. The difference between showing up and showing off has never been clearer, and you land on the generous side every time. Lead with the warmth and the rest follows. The year has plenty of stages, and you are wonderfully done with empty ones.