The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Your Year of Holding the Center. This is the year people finally name the thing you do without announcing it, the steady weight you carry so the room around you stays balanced. A project that has been wobbling without you noticing your part in it steadies in February, and the reason is plainly you. By early summer, someone you have quietly kept on course says it out loud, and you let yourself believe them. The work you never made a show of becomes the work everyone counts on, and counting on you turns out to be a compliment you can finally accept. Start the small thing before you feel ready. The year rewards the first move more than the perfect one, and you have always been better at beginning than you give yourself credit for. The middle holds because you hold it.