Step by Step

Growth doesn’t ask us to leap—only to take the next right step and trust the soil beneath us.

If you are reading todays letter you have made it this far into 2025, with only steps away from 2026.

Over the course of the last few weeks, I have been sharing tools that I have found are helpful in embracing the joy in life that is available to each of us, if we choose to embrace the possibilities.

First was the importance of looking at tolerations. Those elements in life you have been “putting up with” and would like to remove as much as possible in the year ahead. In other words, looking at what has not been working for you to make room in your life for what you do want.

Last week I shared the idea around looking at what you will grow in in the year ahead.  And what value based goals will guide you. Please note I discovered the link for the Goals Worksheet I mentioned was broken and you can find that now working here.

With all this you may very well have your own tools for welcoming the new year with the insight and energy that can carry you one step at a time towards the life you want to live in the year ahead. The key as always is to actually use them ;)

In this week’s video I share a short 5 minute talk I gave recently at an event called Unscripted.  A diverse group of 15 of us spent two full transformative days preparing to give a message over five minutes on stage in front of a live audience. We all grew in so many ways during the process.  I am now delighted to not only call my fellow speakers my colleagues but my friends as well.

To be sure it was scary and opened each of us in ways we had not expected. And the end result is that we came away having empowered each other to speak our truth. Something I know I want to do more of in the year ahead and a true goal achieved for 2025 in finding my new message I want to share more of.

Please remember that however you decide to step into 2026 do it with love and grace for yourself. Utilize the positive energy of your life so far. No need necessarily for resolutions or other tools that have may not have worked for you in the past.

Try out the 5 steps I share in today’s video to uncover your wants, needs and desires step by step, day by day, with the ultimate goal of putting a smile not only on your face but on the face of those whose lives you touch in the process.

Thanks for being on this journey with me heading into 2026.

Plant often and with Love!

Cheri

Cheri Ruskus

Author, Creator and Growth Mentor