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@nickfeeneycoach and I ordered some notebooks from Amazon to prompt suggestions and ideas about how we want 2026 to look. Now seemed like a good time to do it, in that weird space between Christmas and New Year where you don’t know what to do with yourself, and you’ve eaten all the Quality Streets.
It’s an interesting one this year because it’s literally a blank slate, for the first time in decades. It’s a very scary blank slate, but I’m reframing it as exciting. Because you just don’t know what’s ahead of you. This time last year I was in hospital. I most definitely hadn’t put that on my vision board! The months that followed led to a complete change of direction, in every way, and one year later, here we are in a different country, starting over. Looking at the blank slate. What do I want to put on it? How do I balance ‘needs’ (paying bills, supporting ourselves and our family) with ‘wants’ (what do I really want to do?)
It’s an interesting process, because I’ve spent so long in survival mode that half the battle is calming the panic that everything will fall apart, and allowing the ‘What Ifs…’ to be positive, exciting things that I dare to dream about. I’ve done challenging things before, I know I can do them again. But can I do them from a place of adventure and “why not?”
Today I’m asking myself, what am I good at, what are my personal traits and how do they match with my areas of expertise? And how do I do something new based on skills that have come from an old life?
This isn’t about New Years Resolutions, and exercising more or eating less chocolate, it’s about ME.
It’s quite the task, and something I’ve never really done before.
So, if this was you, what would you do?
#freshstart #newbeginnings | Posted on 28/Dec/2025 16:14:36
