Steady Is Sacred
Collective care over calendar pressure. Ending 2025 Steady, Not Rushed
Opening Reflection
Happy Ujima 🕯️
This is the last weekly newsletter of 2025, though I am still very much a believer that the new year does not truly begin until spring. Winter has always felt more like a pause than a push, a time to gather warmth, reflect, and tend what already exists rather than rush toward what is next.
Ujima, collective work and responsibility, feels like the right principle to sit with as this year closes. Not in a hustle sense, but in a shared one. The reminder that we build together, and that rest is not separate from the work, it is woven into it.
This past week held a gentle mix of creation, conviction, and rest. All of it felt intentional.
What Moved This Week
One of the most meaningful things I created recently came from a very real place. I am in an embarrassing number of Skool groups, and I needed a way to organise them, prioritise my favourites, and show up consistently without burning out or disappearing entirely.
What started as a personal organisation system slowly revealed itself as something much bigger. The Group Strategy System evolved into a visibility and authority-building framework that helps creators show up with clarity and confidence, without forcing themselves into loud or misaligned posting.
It reminded me how often the things we build to support ourselves end up supporting others too. Watching a survival system turn into a leadership tool has been incredibly affirming, and I am genuinely proud of what this became.
At the same time, I felt myself pause around how I wanted to release things this week. I had planned a Boxing Day sale, but something in me kept nudging me in a different direction. Kwanzaa felt present. Purposeful. Worth listening to.
So instead, I created an interactive photoshoot prompt guide rooted in reflection and intention. I released it as a Freebie Friday gift, and then honoured its value by adjusting the price once I woke up on Saturday. It now sits at just two dollars, not as pressure, but as access. I also wrote a blog post on Kwanzaa if you wanted to learn more about the tradition and how it connects to online Communities.
I also released the final set of the 12 Gifts of Christmas, twelve ebooks and resources, each paired with guidance on how they can be turned into courses, products, or services. It felt good to close that chapter thoughtfully, rather than rush it. Now VIP members of Visionary in Progress have 36 prompts, tools and resources to elevate them in their chosen spaces.
Rest Counts Too
I did not move products over to my new Squarespace site this week.
And honestly, I am okay with that.
Instead, I slept ten hours a night at least three times. I spent Christmas with my siblings. I caught up on Vlogmas. I received three blankets, and I think it is safe to say I have been warm and well-wrapped ever since.
Rest absolutely won this week, and I am choosing to count that as progress.
A Moment of Confirmation
Yesterday, I came across a prompt that offers a word for the year ahead. When members inside Visionary in Progress tried it, the majority received the same word.
Steady.
That felt like confirmation in the quietest, most reassuring way. It reminded me that what I am building is not just useful, it is needed. That the pace, tone, and intention behind this space are landing where they are meant to.
Steady is now becoming the theme for the Q1 Visionary Starter Kit, and it feels deeply aligned. Sometimes alignment does not announce itself loudly, it repeats itself gently through community.
With that said, this is the last week you can get Edition 4 of The Visionary Starter Kit in store for free.
Closing Reflection
As 2025 comes to a close, I am not rushing to declare resolutions or reinvent myself overnight. I am choosing to move forward steadily, together, and with care.
The real new year will arrive with spring. Until then, I am tending what already exists. It feels like I am hibernating with the bears, with all this sleep I have been getting!
Thank you for being here. Thank you for sharing this space with me. Thank you for doing the work, and for resting when rest is required.
Image Muse ✨
A [ethnicity] woman in cozy attire sits by the fireplace, surrounded by fluffy blankets and books, with warm light from fairy lights illuminating her face as she reads next to an open window overlooking nature outside. the room is decorated for christmas, featuring garlands of greenery hanging above a stone chimney. in front of it stand tall windows covered in twinkling stars that glow through a misty night sky. a soft pastel color scheme adds warmth to this picturesque scene.
This Week’s Image Pack
This image pack is an invitation to slow down visually as well as mentally. Each image is designed to hold calm, warmth, and intention, offering a soft place to land when planning, journaling, or creating content without urgency. Use them as prompts for reflection, backgrounds for posts, covers for documents, or quiet inspiration inside your creative workflow. These images are not about doing more, they are about feeling steady while you do what already matters.
Journal Prompt ✨
(works in ChatGPT, Claude, or any LLM)
Act as a gentle reflective journaling guide.
Invite me to reflect on the closing of the year without urgency or pressure. Ask me to explore where I have already been steady, what systems, habits, or inner shifts quietly supported me, and where I chose rest or alignment over rushing. Help me notice moments of collective support, both given and received, and guide me to consider what shared responsibility could feel like moving forward.
End by prompting me to imagine the next season not as a reset, but as a continuation, asking what I want to protect, nurture, or stop forcing if I trust that steadiness is enough.
Keep the tone calm, affirming, and spacious. Do not rush me. Ask reflective follow-up questions only if they support clarity and ease.
Thanks for your space, great newsletters.
I love reading your newsletters every week. It calms me and inspires me at the same time.