30/12/2025
It's that time again when we start making plans to exercise more, learn new things, eat better, or be more productive. All of that can be healthy – a way of giving shape to the kind of life we want to live. But sometimes, beneath that drive is a belief that who we are right now isn’t good enough.
That thought can sound productive at first, but when growth begins from a place of pressure, it starts to feel like a race with no finish line. There’s always more we could do, one more thing to fix or prove. The biggest room is the room for improvement precisely because it can never be filled.
To feel “good enough” is to acknowledge that, at this point in time, we’ve done our best with what we’ve known and had. It’s recognising that our worth isn’t built on outcomes or comparisons, but on the fact that we are human – capable, flawed, learning, and trying.
When we start to grow from that place, we make choices because they matter to us, not because they’ll make us more acceptable. We learn out of curiosity, not self-criticism or expectation.
And that’s where genuine growth begins, not from a need to prove our value, but from the understanding that our value has always been there and that we're worth our own effort for its own sake.
