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 Each day feels new, and my memory of the one before is faint. I’m learning to adapt. |
| This year, I will show up as I am, not as I think I should be. That sentence surprised me when it landed. Not because it sounds profound, but because it feels usable. It also arrived before my coffee finished brewing, which is usually when my best ideas show up and my judgment has not. Over the past year, I practiced showing up to write every day. That wasn’t a goal I set. It wasn’t a resolution or a productivity challenge. It was just something I started doing. Some days the words came easily. Some days they didn’t. Some days I stared at the screen wondering who approved me to be in charge of sentences. Still, I showed up. Writing taught me something I didn’t expect. Showing up isn’t about motivation or feeling ready. It’s about presence. Sitting in the chair. Opening the document. Letting the day be what it is and participating anyway. That idea sits at the heart of Seven Degrees Left of Center. I don’t live at true north anymore. I live slightly off. Memory drifts. Focus wobbles. Some days the compass spins before it settles. But being a little left of center doesn’t mean being lost. It just means adjusting and continuing on. Standing at the edge of a new year, I’m realizing that practice doesn’t need to stay confined to writing. What would it look like to show up the same way with people? To conversations. To daily tasks. To the small obligations I tend to postpone while waiting to feel more like the person I think I should be. What would it look like to show up to myself with the same patience I give the page? Not fixing. Not improving. Not reinventing. Just showing up. Slightly off center. Still present. I don’t need a new version of myself for the year ahead. I don’t need clarity before action or confidence before presence. I already know how to do this. I’ve been practicing it quietly all along. So this isn’t a resolution. It’s a continuation. In 2026, I’ll show up as I am, not as I think I should be. Seven degrees left of center. And let that be enough. |
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