Worthy Wednesdays

Issue #55 - A Letter at Year's End

I have not believed in resolutions since 2016.

That year, I shared a simple truth that still guides me today:

Every January, the cultural script invites us into the same cycle. A quiet ritual of self-surveillance. A subtle suggestion that who we were was insufficient. A promise that the new year is your chance to finally become the version of yourself you should have been all along.

This framing turns you into a problem that needs solving.

I do not believe in that.

But I do believe in reflection.

In choosing with intention.

In listening to the wisdom your year revealed.

In being clear about what your life is asking for next.

The way you showed up this year, including the messy and uncertain parts, was necessary for your growth.

Intentions matter to me because they are rooted in self-respect, not self-critique. They assume you are evolving, not broken. They invite alignment, not punishment.

Intention-setting is not an annual performance. It is a daily practice.

Some days you honour it. Some days you do not.

Both are information. Both are part of the unfolding.

This year invited me to practice one thing more than anything else: consistency.

Consistency in showing up.

Consistency in writing.

Consistency in letting myself be seen in ways I once avoided.

I committed to writing Worthy Wednesdays for a full year, and here we are at fifty-five issues. I was not consistent every single week, because life has a way of reshaping our rhythm. But I returned. Again and again. That has mattered more to me than perfect attendance.

Writing has changed me.

I have always been more comfortable speaking than writing. Writing felt exposing. Slow. Vulnerable. But week after week, something shifted. Writing became a place to metabolise the unspoken. A way of remembering my own voice.

And then something else happened.

You wrote back.

This year, many of you reached out with messages that stayed with me and why this work matters.

Quiet notes about how a sentence lingered.

How an idea helped you feel less alone in a moment of transition.

How Worthy Wednesdays became a companion on a commute or a catalyst during a career shift.

Some of you shared reflections from career breaks, from new chapters, from turning forty, from navigating reinvention, from seasons of uncertainty and becoming. One reader wrote a line I still think about:

“You are never before, never after, but always on time.”

Your words have been an unexpected reciprocity.

Thank you for trusting me with your reflections and for allowing these ideas to land in the places they were meant to.

As we close this year, I want to offer a few reflections. Not resolutions. Not goals. Just invitations.
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What This Year Taught Me

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Last year, I committed to consistency in writing and showing up. Fifty-five issues later, with a few missed weeks when life took over, here is what I learned:

1. Consistency is not discipline. It is relationship.

It is the practice of returning, even when the rhythm breaks. It does not require perfection. It requires presence.

2. You do not need to be understood to be impactful.

Some of your most important work will be illegible to others until long after it becomes clear to you.

3. Reinvention happens in micro-movements.

One decision. One boundary. One refusal to abandon yourself.

4. Your quiet work counts.

Not everything needs to be shared, monetised or visible to matter.

5. Writing is remembering.

A way of coming home to parts of yourself you forgot you needed.
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A Few Prompts for Your Own Reflection

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No pressure. Just honesty.

• What felt true for you this year that you did not have language for until now?
• What identity did you begin releasing, even quietly?
• What did this year teach you that you did not expect to learn?
• What surprised you about yourself?
• What role are you ready to stop performing?
• What do you want to experience more of, not achieve more of?

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​What’s Next

As we move toward 2026, I would love to hear from you.

Reply and let me know:

• Which structures or formats resonated most

• What topics you want more of

• What questions you are carrying into the new year

• What parts of Worthy Wednesdays have felt grounding or catalytic for you

If you want to go deeper, I write longer explorations on Substack.

Many of the threads we touch here expand there, especially around worth, identity, reinvention, and the systems we are learning to navigate and reshape.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for reading.

Thank you for letting these words meet you where they needed to.

2026 is arriving but before we rush ahead, let us pause in the truth of what has already been lived

With gratitude and worth,

💫 Grace