When the Year Asks You to Listen
There’s a moment every December when the year seems to pause. Not fully ending. Not quite beginning. Just… quieting.
It’s almost like the year itself is taking a breath and asking you to listen.
Not to your goals. Not to your to-do list. Not to the loud expectations that have followed you through every season. But to the deeper things — the things beneath the noise.
What Changed This Year?
December is often framed as a month of conclusions. A time to measure success, judge ourselves against hopes, and tally the unfinished pieces. But this way of reviewing a year is almost always too harsh, too narrow, too rushed.
Life doesn’t speak through checkboxes. It speaks through the things that changed you. The truth is, the questions worth asking at the end of a year are softer, slower, and more honest:
- What surprised me?
- What softened me?
- What stretched me?
- What did I learn that I wasn’t looking for?
- What truth revealed itself in ways I couldn’t ignore?
These aren’t productivity questions. They’re soul questions. Because the real story of your year isn’t found in what you achieved … it’s found in who you’ve become.
And becoming is always quieter than we expect.
Who Have I Become This Year?
This year has been speaking to you all along.
Maybe you learned how to rest or how to say no.
Maybe you learned how to speak up, or how to step back.
Maybe you discovered a strength you didn’t know you had — or admitted a vulnerability you didn’t realize you were carrying.
Maybe this year didn’t go the way you planned. Still, it shaped you.
Maybe it wasn’t smooth. But it grew you.
Maybe it broke you open in some places… but it let light in through the cracks.
Listening to a year isn’t about being proud or disappointed. It’s about being attentive.
There’s wisdom in the way your emotions changed, the way your relationships shifted, the way your hopes sharpened or softened. There’s wisdom in the quiet decisions you made without telling anyone. The small ways you tried again. The little leaps forward. The subtle healing you didn’t recognize at the time.
This year has been speaking to you all along, and December is simply when the whisper becomes easier to hear.
So before the rush of the holidays and the pressure of a new year, take a moment to sit with what the year is trying to tell you. Not with judgment. With openness.
Quiet Question for You:
What unexpected truth did this year teach you?
The Listening Post
A quiet place to be heard — and to hear yourself. The Listening Post is like a quiet conversation with yourself. It listens carefully, asks thoughtful questions, and helps you find what’s true for you. And it’s completely private! Try it out today, for free!
There’s a moment every December when the year seems to pause. Not fully ending. Not quite beginning. Just… quieting.
It’s almost like the year itself is taking a breath and asking you to listen.
Not to your goals. Not to your to-do list. Not to the loud expectations that have followed you through every season. But to the deeper things — the things beneath the noise.
What Changed This Year?
December is often framed as a month of conclusions. A time to measure success, judge ourselves against hopes, and tally the unfinished pieces. But this way of reviewing a year is almost always too harsh, too narrow, too rushed.
Life doesn’t speak through checkboxes. It speaks through the things that changed you. The truth is, the questions worth asking at the end of a year are softer, slower, and more honest:
- What surprised me?
- What softened me?
- What stretched me?
- What did I learn that I wasn’t looking for?
- What truth revealed itself in ways I couldn’t ignore?
These aren’t productivity questions. They’re soul questions. Because the real story of your year isn’t found in what you achieved … it’s found in who you’ve become.
And becoming is always quieter than we expect.
Who Have I Become This Year?
This year has been speaking to you all along.
Maybe you learned how to rest or how to say no.
Maybe you learned how to speak up, or how to step back.
Maybe you discovered a strength you didn’t know you had — or admitted a vulnerability you didn’t realize you were carrying.
Maybe this year didn’t go the way you planned. Still, it shaped you.
Maybe it wasn’t smooth. But it grew you.
Maybe it broke you open in some places… but it let light in through the cracks.
Listening to a year isn’t about being proud or disappointed. It’s about being attentive.
There’s wisdom in the way your emotions changed, the way your relationships shifted, the way your hopes sharpened or softened. There’s wisdom in the quiet decisions you made without telling anyone. The small ways you tried again. The little leaps forward. The subtle healing you didn’t recognize at the time.
This year has been speaking to you all along, and December is simply when the whisper becomes easier to hear.
So before the rush of the holidays and the pressure of a new year, take a moment to sit with what the year is trying to tell you. Not with judgment. With openness.
Quiet Question for You:
What unexpected truth did this year teach you?
The Listening Post
A quiet place to be heard — and to hear yourself. The Listening Post is like a quiet conversation with yourself. It listens carefully, asks thoughtful questions, and helps you find what’s true for you. And it’s completely private! Try it out today, for free!
There’s a moment every December when the year seems to pause. Not fully ending. Not quite beginning. Just… quieting.
It’s almost like the year itself is taking a breath and asking you to listen.
Not to your goals. Not to your to-do list. Not to the loud expectations that have followed you through every season. But to the deeper things — the things beneath the noise.
What Changed This Year?
December is often framed as a month of conclusions. A time to measure success, judge ourselves against hopes, and tally the unfinished pieces. But this way of reviewing a year is almost always too harsh, too narrow, too rushed.
Life doesn’t speak through checkboxes. It speaks through the things that changed you. The truth is, the questions worth asking at the end of a year are softer, slower, and more honest:
- What surprised me?
- What softened me?
- What stretched me?
- What did I learn that I wasn’t looking for?
- What truth revealed itself in ways I couldn’t ignore?
These aren’t productivity questions. They’re soul questions. Because the real story of your year isn’t found in what you achieved … it’s found in who you’ve become.
And becoming is always quieter than we expect.
Who Have I Become This Year?
This year has been speaking to you all along.
Maybe you learned how to rest or how to say no.
Maybe you learned how to speak up, or how to step back.
Maybe you discovered a strength you didn’t know you had — or admitted a vulnerability you didn’t realize you were carrying.
Maybe this year didn’t go the way you planned. Still, it shaped you.
Maybe it wasn’t smooth. But it grew you.
Maybe it broke you open in some places… but it let light in through the cracks.
Listening to a year isn’t about being proud or disappointed. It’s about being attentive.
There’s wisdom in the way your emotions changed, the way your relationships shifted, the way your hopes sharpened or softened. There’s wisdom in the quiet decisions you made without telling anyone. The small ways you tried again. The little leaps forward. The subtle healing you didn’t recognize at the time.
This year has been speaking to you all along, and December is simply when the whisper becomes easier to hear.
So before the rush of the holidays and the pressure of a new year, take a moment to sit with what the year is trying to tell you. Not with judgment. With openness.
Quiet Question for You:
What unexpected truth did this year teach you?
The Listening Post
A quiet place to be heard — and to hear yourself. The Listening Post is like a quiet conversation with yourself. It listens carefully, asks thoughtful questions, and helps you find what’s true for you. And it’s completely private! Try it out today, for free!
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