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The Year is Over Already? 🤦🏾♂️
Damon Brown
December 31, 2025
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Hi reader,
Today’s the last day of the year?
To be real, I often catch myself panicking at this time.
Not the breakneck, I’m late for a very important date panic
But the subtle moment-to-moment freeze
As if I’m forgetting something
And, if you’re like me, we are forgetting something - just not a deadline.
Rather, it is the personal growth we faced
The career decisions made, both the quiet ones and the loud ones
The tough conversations we finally had with someone else.
Yes, there is more we could have done
There is always more we can do
But what we actually did
Matters more.
So today, I’m reminding myself that what we did was plenty
More than enough
And that’s a reminder that we are more than enough
Plenty 🤴🏾
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