Your Abundant Year Begins With a Decision
A successful and abundant year doesn’t arrive by accident. It arrives the moment you decide that this year, your year, you are no longer living on autopilot. You stop reacting to life and start being the leader of your life and experience.
Abundance isn’t just money. It’s waking up with energy. It’s relationships that add to your life instead of draining. It’s habits that support who you’re becoming, not who you’ve outgrown. It’s the confidence of knowing you’re aligned with yourself, and you have so much to give the world.
This upcoming year is not asking you to become someone new.
It’s asking you to fully claim who you already are.
Below are three powerful shifts that will elevate your energy, love , & freedom, and overall success—without leading to an epic burnout.
#1: Protect and Expand Your Energy (Everything Flows From Here)
Your energy is your most valuable currency. When you have energy, clarity improves, opportunities appear, and life feels lighter. When you are at a lack, even good things feel heavy.
What to do this year:
- Stop negotiating with exhaustion. Build in rest, movement, sunlight, and nourishment into your non-negotiables. This could include walks outside, dance parties in your kitchen, or even a vacation to allow you to recharge.
- Start each day asking: “What would support my energy today?” instead of “What do I have to push through?” Is it a workout, is it a refreshing tea, maybe it’s a night out with the girls, or a cuddle session with your favorite pal (yes, I’m thinking of you Nigel).
- Say no faster to what drains you—conversations, commitments, and environments included. You get to choose your life, that means you get to make choices that might night align with those around you. No is a very valuable word, but it’s only valuable if there is action behind it.
Why this changes everything:
Good energy creates momentum. Momentum creates confidence. Confidence attracts love, success, and abundance naturally—without chasing.
#2: Upgrade Your Relationship Standards—Starting With Yourself
Your love life and relationships are mirrors. This year, you don’t chase connection—you become a place of connection.
What to do this year:
- Treat yourself the way you want to be treated: speak kindly to yourself, keep promises to yourself, and honor your emotional needs.
- Stop tolerating “almost,” “maybe,” or “someday” energy in relationships.
- Practice presence: real listening, real eye contact, real vulnerability.
Why this changes everything:
When you raise the standard of how you show up for yourself, the people you attract—and keep—rise to meet you. Love becomes calmer, deeper, and more secure.
#3: Build Habits That Match the Life You Want (Not the Life You’ve Been Managing)
Your habits are simply votes for the future you’re creating. Small, consistent actions—done with intention—compound into extraordinary results.
What to do this year:
- Choose habits that support who you’re becoming, not who you’ve been. I’m making it a goals to read more. I read 8 books (yeah yeah I know my sister reads over a hundred every year, but 8 is more than I have read in the last decade I think), this year I hope to make it to 12.
- Anchor habits to identity: instead of “I want to work out,” think “I’m someone who cares for my body.” You can even anchor habits to other parts of your life, I’m going to workout today because I want to be happy and have energy when I go on vacation in the mountains.
- Focus on consistency over intensity. Tiny actions done daily outperform bursts of motivation every time. Honestly, things compound, and that feels like magic. A little bit each day can make huge changes over time.
Why this changes everything:
When your habits align with your values, discipline feels less like force and more like self-respect. Success stops feeling hard and starts feeling inevitable.
A Final Reframe for the Year Ahead
This year does not require you to be perfect.
It requires you to be present, intentional, and kind to yourself.
You are allowed to want more.
You are allowed to slow down.
You are allowed to choose joy, love, and abundance without guilt.
Success this year isn’t about proving anything.
It’s about coming home to yourself—and letting life meet you there.
This is your year to expand.
Your year to receive.
Your year to thrive.
Cheers to LOVE, ENERGY & FREEDOM and of course 2026.
And it starts now. ✨
Kathryn Sogard 