Start 2026 With Your Best Moments

Happy New Year! Yesterday, I invited you to reflect differently on 2025. Today, I want to share one simple practice that can help you step into 2026 with more clarity and intention.

Before You Set Goals, Do This

We're all conditioned to start a new year by setting goals, making resolutions, and creating ambitious plans. There's nothing wrong with that, but what if you started somewhere else first?

What if, before you decided what you want to achieve, you took a moment to notice what actually made you come alive in 2025?

The Power of Your Best Moments

Think back through your year. Not the highlights reel you'd post on social media. Not the accomplishments that look impressive on paper. I'm talking about the moments when you felt most like yourself. Most at ease. Most energized or at peace.

Maybe it was a quiet morning with your coffee before anyone else woke up. Maybe it was a conversation that left you feeling deeply seen. Maybe it was finally finishing that project you'd been putting off, or the way your body felt after a long walk, or the evening you spent laughing with friends without checking your phone once.

These moments your best moments they matter more than you think.

They're not just nice memories to look back on. They're clues. They're showing you something important about what you need, what you value, and what helps you thrive.

A Simple Exercise for Today

Here's all I want you to do:

Identify 3-5 of your best moments from 2025.

That's it. Just think back through the year and notice the moments that stand out—the ones that made you feel alive, connected, at peace, or genuinely happy.

Don't overthink it. Your best moments don't need to be profound or life-changing. They just need to be true.

Write them down if you can. In your journal, in your phone, on a piece of paper. Just capture them somewhere.

What This Reveals

Once you have your list, just sit with it for a minute. Look at those moments and notice:

What do they have in common?

What do these moments tell you about what you need more of in your life?

You don't need to analyze this to death. You don't need a complex framework or a detailed action plan. Just notice. Get curious. Let the patterns reveal themselves.

The Question That Matters

As you look at your best moments from 2025, ask yourself one simple question:

Do I want more of this in 2026?

If the answer is yes, then you have your starting point. Not a goal, exactly. More like a direction. A north star.

You know what lights you up. You know what feels right. Now the question becomes: what needs to shift in your life to create more space for these moments? Sometimes it's about addition saying yes to more of what actually matters to you. Sometimes it's about subtraction letting go of obligations, commitments, or patterns that drain you and leave no room for what you really want. Most often, it's both.

You Don't Need to Figure It All Out Today

Here's what I'm not asking you to do: create a perfect plan, set ambitious goals, or completely overhaul your life by tomorrow morning. All I'm asking is that you pay attention. Notice what worked. Notice what made you feel most alive. And get curious about what it would take to experience more of that in the year ahead.

That's enough for today. The goals can come later. The plans can develop over time. But if you start with this with an honest acknowledgment of what actually brings you to life everything else you build will be on a much stronger foundation.

Looking Ahead

2026 is a blank slate. You get to choose how you fill it.

You could fill it with what you think you should do, what looks impressive, or what everyone else seems to be pursuing.

Or you could fill it with more of what you already know works for you. More of what makes you feel alive. More of the moments that, when you look back at the end of this year, will make you think, "Yes, that's what it was all about." The choice is yours.

So here's my wish for you: May 2026 be filled with more of your best moments. May you have the clarity to recognize what truly matters to you and the courage to build your life around it. May you be gentle with yourself when things don't go according to plan, and may you celebrate the small, quiet victories that no one else sees but that change everything.

Here's to a year of paying attention, making space for what matters, and becoming more fully yourself.

Happy New Year, friends. I'm glad you're here.

A note: If you find yourself wanting support as you navigate this year, if you want help translating these insights into real change or if you're feeling stuck on what needs to shift. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to explore working together.

Wishing you peace and happiness from my heart to yours!

Peace

Monita