{"id":2266,"date":"2025-01-07T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/choosingme.co.ke\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2025-01-07T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:21:00","slug":"the-year-of-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/choosingme.co.ke\/index.php\/the-year-of-becoming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year of Becoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year isn\u2019t about doing more or fixing everything. It\u2019s about becoming.<\/p>\n<p>Becoming isn\u2019t something you can rush. Think of a seed quietly growing into a tree, or a river slowly shaping its path. You don\u2019t see it happening, but it is. Little by little, you\u2019re changing.<\/p>\n<p>What if this year, we stopped focusing on what we need to accomplish and started paying attention to who we\u2019re becoming?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to get caught up in the idea of \u201cfixing\u201d ourselves\u2014always striving to be better, faster, smarter. 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