The Threshold Between 2025 and 2026 (Copy)

Dec 22

DECEMBER 22, 2025

The uncomfortable in-between is not a sign of failure; it’s a sign that the old self is dissolving and the new self is forming. When you stop rushing that space, it becomes the most powerful part of your growth.

Name one thing you’re “between” right now and take one honest, uncomfortable step toward the version of you that wants to emerge.

There’s a moment at the end of every year that most people rush past. The moment between what was and what will be. The space where nothing is fully formed yet… and everything is possible.

Most of us don’t like that space. It feels slow. Uncertain. Uncomfortable. We often call it “being stuck.” And brush past with big, sweeping goals for the new year. But after a year of working with thousands of people, teams, leaders, and communities across the world, here’s what I can tell you with absolute certainty:

This transitional space between years isn’t a problem. Feeling stuck or uncertain isn’t a problem.
It’s a passage.

You’re not trapped.
You’re in transition.
You’re standing in the identity gap: the space between the version of you that no longer fits and the one you haven’t fully stepped into yet.

This is where a transformational “becoming” happens. As individuals and in cultures.

Stuckness, confusion, uncertainty tells you you’re not moving.
But look closer.

You’re questioning things you used to accept.
You’re outgrowing things that once felt comfortable.
You’re noticing what drains you and what calls you forward.
You’re refusing to go backwards even if you’re not sure how to go forward.

That’s not stuck.
That’s awareness.

And awareness is the first step of every breakthrough.

Liminal space, that is the in-between moments, isn’t meant to feel tidy.
It’s meant to reveal you.

When you’re no longer who you were, but not yet who you’re becoming, the old strategies stop working.
The old motivations fade.
The old identity feels tight.
The old patterns feel dead.

That’s not failure.
It’s birth.

It’s the moment right before everything shifts.

Our culture typically doesn’t handle “in-between” well. It tells you to fix it, hurry up, optimize it, get answers, set goals, redesign everything and kick it off January 1st.

But becoming doesn’t work like that. Every real transformation has a threshold, a crossing point you can’t skip.

If you rush it…
you repeat it.

If you stay with it…
you emerge different.

Not because the year changed.
But because you did.

The people who did the deepest work this year weren’t the ones who always knew what to do. They were the ones willing to stay in the unknown and uncomfortable long enough to tell the truth.

To end what needed to end.
To begin what needed to begin.
To stop performing for approval.
To stop chasing busyness.
To stop avoiding themselves.

Many of them told me, “This year felt like a lot of nothing… and then suddenly everything changed.”

That’s becoming.
Quiet. Slow. Invisible… until it’s not.

2026 doesn’t need a new you. It needs a real you.

Not the polished version.
Not the one that has everything figured out.
Not the one trying to impress anyone.

The real you.
The one emerging in the space you’re in right now: this strange, holy, uncertain stretch of ground between identities.

You don’t need resolutions to step into that version.
You need presence.
You need honesty.
You need willingness.
You need one uncomfortable action taken from truth instead of fear.

That’s how we enter a new year… not with big (but empty) declarations, but with alignment.

Identity shapes behavior.
And you’re in the middle of shaping yours.

Stay with it.
Trust it.
Walk forward, even if it’s slow, even if it’s messy, even if all you can see is the next inch.

That inch matters.

Because that’s where transformation begins.

Key Idea

Stuck isn’t a dead end, it’s a threshold. The uncomfortable in-between is not a sign of failure; it’s a sign that the old self is dissolving and the new self is forming. When you stop rushing that space, it becomes the most powerful part of your growth.

Takeaway

Name one thing you’re “between” right now and take one honest, uncomfortable step toward the version of you that wants to emerge.

Build your Movement

What part of you is ending… and what part is beginning?