Recently, I found myself writing a message that I may never send.<\/p>\n
The purpose seemed simple enough: to let a few people know that, in the coming weeks, my social media accounts will be managed by an agency. A natural step for someone balancing books, music, research, technology, and a growing number of creative projects.<\/p>\n
But as I was writing, I noticed something unexpected.<\/p>\n
I wasn’t just looking for the right words.<\/p>\n
I was trying to understand why I wanted to send the message in the first place.<\/p>\n
During a conversation, a simple question came up:<\/p>\n
“If you don’t send this message, what happens?”<\/em><\/p>\n The answer arrived almost immediately: probably nothing.<\/p>\n People would continue their lives. The projects would continue to grow. The music would continue to be released. The books would continue to find readers.<\/p>\n So why did the message feel important?<\/p>\n Perhaps because it wasn’t really about an agency.<\/p>\n Perhaps it was about recognizing a new chapter.<\/p>\n For a long time, I associated growth with doing everything myself. Writing, composing, publishing, promoting, answering messages, managing websites, developing projects, creating content.<\/p>\n But there comes a point when doing everything alone stops being independence and starts becoming a limitation.<\/p>\n Growth requires choices.<\/p>\n And sometimes, it requires accepting help.<\/p>\n That was when I realized that the most important sentence from that conversation wasn’t in the message itself.<\/p>\n It came afterward.<\/p>\n When I was asked what this change truly meant, my answer was surprisingly simple:<\/p>\n “I’m growing.”<\/em><\/p>\n And maybe that’s exactly it.<\/p>\n Not every important transformation announces itself with fanfare.<\/p>\n Sometimes it arrives disguised as an administrative decision.<\/p>\n Sometimes it appears as a fuller calendar.<\/p>\n Sometimes it hides inside a message that may never be sent.<\/p>\n But when we look closely, we realize that some changes are not really about organization.<\/p>\n They are about direction.<\/p>\n And perhaps the true meaning of growth is precisely this:<\/p>\n Not doing more.<\/p>\n But creating space for what matters most.<\/p>\n Because in the end, the message was never about social media.<\/p>\n It was about making room to keep writing books, creating music, exploring ideas, and building the projects that are still waiting somewhere ahead.<\/p>\n It was about moving forward.<\/p>\n And continuing to grow.<\/p>\n \u2014 Andr\u00e9a Castro Fleury 💜<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, I found myself writing a message that I may never send. The purpose seemed simple enough: to let a few people know that, in the coming weeks, my social media accounts will be managed by an agency. A natural step for someone balancing books, music, research, technology, and a growing number of creative projects. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[229,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-andrea-fleury","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreafleury.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}