What my New Year planning has taught me

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One of the reasons I always take time to plan at the start of the year is because it shows me what’s actually true, not just what sounds nice.

As I was planning this year, something really clear landed for me.

When I first started my group on Skool, it was intentionally quite open. I didn’t fully know where I wanted it to go yet. It was a reflection of where I was, exploring, recovering from burnout, finding my feet again.

I ran it, added tiers, tweaked things, and kept asking myself:

How do I upgrade this? What is this really about?

And during my planning, the answer became obvious.

It’s about follow-through.

I’m actually very good at vision boards, ideas, and plans. I can see what I want clearly.

What’s been harder, and I know I’m not alone here, is following through without burning out, pushing too hard, or giving up a few months in because I’m exhausted.

I don’t want another year of:

forcing myself
hustling until I collapse
abandoning my plans halfway through

And I realised, this is exactly what my group should be about too.

Not just dreaming.

Not just calming down.

But supporting people to follow through on what matters to them, in a way their body can actually handle.

For some people, that follow-through might look like:

finally taking rest seriously
prioritising healing or trauma work they’ve put off for years
setting and keeping boundaries

For others, it might be:

building a business
changing direction
creating something new and meaningful

All of it is valid.

The missing piece for so many of us isn’t desire or clarity, it’s that our nervous system doesn’t feel safe enough to stay with the change.

So this year, the focus is different.

Inside my group, we’ll be using breathwork, meditation, somatic practices, and nervous system regulation not as the end goal, but as the support that allows real change to stick.

Instead of “I made a beautiful plan but never acted on it,” the work becomes: