Lessons From 2025: What Didn’t Go as Planned and Why That’s Okay

Lessons from 2025 is a short, reflective collection of personal essays about growth, failure, and learning to trust yourself in a year that didn’t go as planned.

Rather than measuring progress by productivity or milestones, this book looks at change through a quieter lens. What happens when discipline replaces motivation. When self-care turns out to be work. When progress feels slower, messier, and more human than expected.

Across ten brief chapters, we'll reflect on themes like:

• redefining self-care beyond comfort

• perfectionism and the pressure to make things hard

• learning to accept setbacks as temporary “blips”

• social anxiety and belonging

• failure, capacity, and adjusting expectations

• trusting your own judgment in a world full of tools and advice

This is not a how-to guide or a blueprint for success. It’s a record of one year lived honestly, written for readers who are navigating change, questioning their pace, or learning to be kinder to themselves along the way.

Best read slowly. Or quickly. Or whenever you need a reminder that growth doesn’t always look like progress.

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