Your Year End Permission Slips
The Gentlest Advent Calendar You’ll Open This Year
December can feel intense — pressure to “finish strong”, keep up momentum, hit goals, wrap projects, be present for family, and somehow magically transform into a newer, shinier version of yourself before 1st January.
This isn’t that.
This is your gentle December.
A space to breathe, reflect, and remember you’re human.
Behind each door you’ll find a tiny mindset reframe, permission slip, or business reminder — something small but powerful enough to shift how you feel as you close out the year.
No hustle.
No guilt.
No gold-star perfectionism.
Just honest reminders, written for the woman who’s built more than she realises… and deserves to finish the year in a way that feels like care, not punishment.
Open one window at a time — or binge them all in one go.
Either way, this is your space.
A December that meets you exactly where you are.
Not every December needs a dramatic finale.
Sometimes the win is simply arriving at the end of the year with your sanity intact.
Finishing is enough.
You are enough.
If your body is asking for rest, that is the permission slip.
No guilt. No proving.
No performance required.
You don’t have to wait until you’re running on fumes.
You can pause before it’s too much.
Call it prevention, not failure.
Show up when it’s meaningful, not when you’re panicking.
Your audience cares more about your honesty than your frequency.
Stillness isn’t weakness.
It’s strategy.
You’re allowed to pause and gather the data your brain needs.
You’re not late.
You’re adjusting.
And adjusting is how you get where you actually want to go.
Your “didn’t get enough done” is a lie told by exhaustion.
You’ve grown in ways you can’t even see yet.
Just because it wasn’t a big announcement doesn’t mean it wasn’t progress.
Silent wins still count.
You’re allowed to be grateful and still want more. That doesn’t make you greedy, it makes you human
If the year battered you a bit, it’s okay. You’re allowed to dream again. Hope again. Want big things again.”
Resilience isn’t pushing harder. It’s recovering well. Rest expands your capacity
You don’t need a reinvention arc. You need permission to show more of the you that already exists.
If you’re waiting to have it ‘all figured out’, stop. None of us do. What matters is you keep moving anyway.”
The money you make from alignment, ease and joy? That sticks. The frantic stuff never does.”
Your brain, your creativity, your experience, that’s the strategy. Tools and templates just organise your brilliance.”
Slow growth is still growth. Foundations don’t look exciting but they’re what keep the whole thing standing.
Stop comparing your early days to someone else’s decade. Different chapters. Different timelines.”
It’s not the system. It’s you. Your consistency, your learning, your grit, that’s what makes it work.”
Before you take action, get clear. Chaos is fine, as long as you’re clear on where it’s taking you.”
Your life isn’t meant to be lived between tasks.
Choose the magic today.
Rest because you need it.
Rest because you want it.
Rest because you’re human.
Comparison ruins good ideas.
Return to your own path. It’s the only one that matters.
You don’t need a full overhaul. You just need a softer, more realistic plan. One that fits the human you are today.
Look at you. You made it through the year. Through the messy bits, the magic bits, the surprises, all of it. That’s the win.
However you finish this year, it’s enough.
If these reminders gave you a moment of peace, clarity, or a deep exhale you didn’t realise you were holding… good. That was the point.
You don’t need to reset your entire life before January.
You don’t need a dramatic transformation.
You don’t need to sprint to prove anything.
You just need honesty, intention, and a bit of gentleness, the kind you rarely give yourself but always extend to everyone else.
Come back to these permission slips whenever you feel the wobble.
December isn’t a test. It’s a transition.
And you’re walking into the new year not as a “new you”, but as the truer you: clearer, more grounded, and very much still becoming.
You made it. That’s the win.