Moving Forward: The Days In Front of Us
Dealing with a fast-paced year with limited time
By now, everyone has made the “It’s just 6 months till the end of the year” posts.
So what happens to us? The ones that just started 2025 only to receive an alert that we’ll soon be asked to wrap up… pens up… submit your papers.
A little voice whispered this to my mind, and I will start today’s newsletter with it:
There is no exam. You’re not in anyone’s classroom.
There is no examiner.
No one is coming to tell you, “pens up”.
Most importantly, there is no grade.
The only person in this classroom of 2025 with you is YOU.
There is no competition.
There is no “first to reach gets the prize”
The only prize you’ll receive at the end of the year is already within.
It’ll come from you. Your recognition of your attempts and growth.
🌞 When you hit your hand on your chest and say, “It was tough, but I did it.”
🌞 When you sigh and say, “Wow, I did just this one thing, and I can’t stop smiling”
🌞 When you look back at the end of 2025 and say, “In just 6 months, look what I did”
And you get to decide what that “thing” will be. Nobody else gets to decide that.
Run! Run very far away from any appearance of labels like:
🌞 “Ahhh, this goal is too small. Others are doing big things.”
🌞 “Ahhh, this commitment is too big. Will I even make it?”
There is no big or small. There is only YOUR RESOLVE:
For who I am today and where I am now.
This is what I have chosen to do
I will stick to it at my own pace.
A pace that challenges me to go further yet doesn’t pressure me to look at my neighbour’s grass if it’s greener than mine.
That’s more like it.
So what’s the way forward?
2025 has been too fast.
But just like one of us said in the comments (a subscriber of this newsletter—Jowsef Jerry), “the year might be speeding up, but my year is mine and I can still take charge”
So, we take it slow and steady.
No, we won’t rush. We’ll resist the urge to rush for the sake of rushing.
We’ll start slowly, just one or two things.
The irony is, when you find one or two things you’re ready to show up for, you’ll be surprised when they bring you energy, and suddenly you’re ready to go things. You start picking up pace with other things.
→ Find something, a few things that are meaningful to you for where you are now (for me, it’s not even building my business—it’s taking my course and writing).
→ Create a system and time to show up for it, even if it’s once a week.
→ Do hard things: There is a difference between operating from a place of rest and completely running away from hard/difficult things.
Doing things you initially resisted is actually how to bring excitement and fulfilment into your life.
Finding that one or two things to start with
“Destiny, I have no idea where to start”
That’s not true, it’s because of two things you feel this way:
You want it to be big
You’re afraid of spending time chasing the “wrong” goal, so you’re waiting for the perfect sign.
You see those little nudges and small interests you have. Start with them.
They don’t have to make sense to anybody else.
That little nudge or tiny curiosity is taking you somewhere. Follow it.
“for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.” Philippians 2:13 NIV
Rest when your body says stop and move when your body nudges you.
Many of the opportunities I’ve had started this way:
The very first international client I worked with, I never saw it coming.
I was nudged to start posting on LinkedIn.
I was nudged not to do it alone, “maybe make a post on Twitter (X) asking if anyone will want to join you” my mind said to me.
I did it. I made the post and over 400 persons responded.
I created a community with resources for us to all grow on LinkedIn, and out of over 400 people, one person reached out to me and asked if I’d be interested in this client (that was it, I started earning in dollars).
That wasn’t the plan from the beginning. I didn't work it out.
I was nudged to post on LinkedIn, not to seek an international client.
Follow the little nudges, even when they don’t promise anything grand.
Final message for this letter?
The process (the journey) matters more than the outcome (or achievements).
Talk soon,
DF
P.S. I love meeting you and hearing from you in the comments