Now that we’re formally again in enterprise [and by that I mean back to school + work this week], it’s time to start out dwelling out our greatest lives for 2026. I’m not going to lie… 2025 was an incredible yr—full of many accomplishments and successes—nevertheless it was additionally stuffed with challenges. Strolling by household loss, overcoming obstacles each personally + professionally, and naturally the on a regular basis stress that life brings, all formed this previous yr. All in all, I be ok with what the previous twelve months appeared like, however I’m prepared to put in writing the subsequent chapter in my life and usher in all that 2026 will carry.
However earlier than I chat about my subsequent phrase of the yr, let’s revisit the place we’ve been—the street a lot traveled—taking a high-level have a look at what I’ve set my sights on over the previous seven years, once I began saying no to lofty resolutions and centered extra on one singular phrase…
Taking it again to 2025, steadiness formed my life and taught me to shift my perspective. In 2024, I realized to savor each single factor God introduced my means. 2023 was geared to encourage not solely myself however others as nicely. 2022 confirmed the true that means of dwelling with coronary heart, and 2021 helped me rejoice1 the great, the unhealthy, and the ugly. 2020 centered on all issues pleasure, and for my very first phrase of the yr again in 2019, it was to make investments within the issues I really like most.
Trying again, it’s superb to see how a single phrase will help form so many areas of life—relationships, religion, profession, and even the on a regular basis moments in between. As soon as once more, I began brainstorming through the holidays, jotting down phrases that felt significant for this subsequent chapter, after which I got here to you, asking what phrase you noticed for me for 2026… P.S. I really like getting suggestions, and listed below are a number of the high phrases that had been repeated again and again:
However in the long run, I put pen to paper and actually received all the way down to the nitty gritty to what I’m hoping 2026 brings my means and what all I’m looking forward to inside the subsequent 12 months… with that, my official phrase of the yr is EMBRACE. After I sat down on Sunday studying my new devotional, the phrase actually popped up on my web page after it had made it to the shortlist and I knew I had discovered my motto for 2026.
Embrace matches my life for therefore many causes:
+ Studying to Adapt | Embracing the change that comes my means in each my profession and my private life.
+ Development | Selecting to evolve with an embrace-type mindset that aligns each a part of who I’m.
+ Specializing in the Constructive | Embrace implies a selection—to lean into the great and gently step away from what now not serves me.
+ Accepting the Unknown | No matter comes my means, I’ll embrace it and make the perfect of each state of affairs.
It appears like the proper phrase for the place I’m proper now—in search of a contemporary begin whereas studying from the previous, rising by change, and main with hope, optimism, and encouragement. It displays a deeper sense of function in who I’m and who I’m turning into.
To carry this to life, you understand I’m a visible particular person, so I all the time create a yearly imaginative and prescient board to function a every day reminder… and this yr’s board isn’t any totally different. It captures the main points of how I plan to EMBRACE every little thing that comes my means in 2026.
And greater than something—embracing what I really like and what I’m obsessed with.
Dressing for Myself + My Life, Not the Grid
Not specializing in what might or is probably not interesting to my social media life, however what brings me pleasure inside my closet AND out within the learn world and my every day moments: working errands, espresso dates, journey time, messy days and extra. I really like to make use of my type as self expression, not an outward level of validation from others and/or what the algorithms expect me to submit!
Embracing Imperfection
Romanticizing my on a regular basis life… it could not all the time be glamorous, nevertheless it’s mine and that sufficient is one thing to rejoice. Getting dressed on a regular basis, sharing the ins and outs of my work, extra behind the scenes moments = life isn’t polished completely and it’s enjoyable to share the imperfections as a result of it’s WAY extra relatable.
Not Taking part in Scared
Sharing my opinions + what I really like, saying what I imply and that means what I say… that is all about making decisions from need, NOT concern. Not ready to do one thing till I really feel “prepared” however going full pressure and diving in in any case as a result of confidence is constructed by motion! One other factor for me is the concern of failure nevertheless it’s OK to be unhealthy at one thing as a result of that can enable me to develop…
Making My Personal Guidelines
That is one I’m completely embracing this yr… not dwelling by another person’s technique however my very personal. Deciding what success seems prefer to me and giving myself the permission to do it my means! This includes creating extra non-negotiables and setting my price by what issues most with setting inner guidelines to guard my future self.
Turning Up My Life
And final however not least, it’s time to show issues up… stretching myself outdoors the boundaries I’ve created beforehand. Carrying the particular outfit on a standard day, utilizing the flamboyant china for an everyday dinner at dwelling, attempting a brand new passion that in any other case would’ve intimidated me = mainly bolder choices in each side of my life!
