What does Teshuva mean?...it does not mean to repent..it is from the word to return, to return to G-D .to the Source, repenting is part of that
What that also means is that being that we are not G-D..but have to strive to return to G-D and that it is an ongoing process.
We will never be G-D so that means we can never stop taking it higher, improving ,growing etc, there is no limit to how much we can achieve and how high we can go.
There is no time , no moment that we can say..we have returned to G-D , to the Source...that would be to claim that we( G-D forbid) are G-D
So Teshuva is momentum ,it should be propelling us forward all year long, Teshuva is feeling ,knowing that noone else can do, noone can return for me, its the most alive feeling anyone can truly have.
Stagnation ,inaction are foreign concepts as pieces of the Master we are propelled forward by the power of Teshuva and no matter if we are cleaning the streets ,washing dishes ,busing tables or running companies and countries only we can live the unique Masterpiece that is our lives