A MONTH IN REVIEW: JANUARY 2026

 ⎨A Month in Review: January 2026⎬

Many years ago I used to have a column on my blog called "A Year in Review", where I reflected upon the year in retrospect, one month at a time. 

I have had this insight to start doing this again for my own life, but this time I'm doing monthly reviews, so that it's much easier to then extend the reflection to the whole year in December.

I'm glad to share my reflections with you, so that they can inspire you to work on yourself and create more harmony in your life- exactly like I'm doing for myself! :)

I'm also using my Project Life journals (I'm going to write a post about that another day) to help me remember...

So what did I do, feel, think, work on, in January 2026?

Bringing back to the store my real Christmas tree and super-simplifying and organizing my Holiday decor like never before, my Daily Nature Practice and doing my inner work in Nature, solidifying the look that I want in my home and how I want to feel, buying myself fresh flowers as part of my "Joyful Abundance" practice.

Most af all, January 2026 for me was a month of reassessment.

I really took the time to be still and listen to the guidance of my heart. What do I really want, moving forward? What do I really, really, really want?

After an old trauma had resurfaced at the end of December 2025, awakening old fears and triggering my survival patterns, in my intentional reaction to surrender and clear that energy from my life, January brought to the surface an old desire that I had kind of forgotten about, but that apparently has deep roots inside myself. I really see now how that trauma triggered the Truth to bubble up in the open from the place inside myself where it was hiding, and be fully noticed. Proof that negative events often guide us to beautiful destinations!

I can tell you, when I noticed that desire, I was kind of shocked... our ego is so subtle... how does it manage to make us forget about our deepest dreams and desires? How does it dim our light and mine our Greatness?

    In the light of these new insights and epiphanies, I immediately changed my Vision Board, completely taking out things and including the new, unexpected ones. Yeah, in life you have to be brave, or it's not life at all! :)

I can see clearly now that I unconsciously started to make space for that dream in my life. As a result, I created a lot of momentum, that rippled through in all areas of my life! All of a sudden and out of the blue, I started decluttering like a crazy person (one of my biggest dreams is to have a highly-simplified and wonderfully decluttered home!)- and making and finishing things that I had been procrastinating about for years! I started noticing that things that had been stagnant for so long, suddenly started moving forward. 

The things I needed or wanted to make, do, or finish simply took care of themselves. It was super easy and effortless to make, do and finish a lot of things, and it was all so fast and evident that even my Mom (that didn't know anything about what I was doing) noticed and told me! WOW, what an acknowledgment from the Universe! And most of all, the most exciting part is to be able to be my own witness- conscious, present, and fully aware of what is happening right in front of my eyes. Present and aware enough to see my energy shifting, and the Hand of the Universe moving thoughts, emotions, events, people, material objects in response to my inner shifts- to give me exactly what I need for the fulfillment of my desires.

Oh, one final note... in January, my "One Little Word", that has been my guiding word for the year ahead since 2009, appeared. I don't choose the word- it's the word choosing me. I will reveal it, and reflect upon it in another post! ;)

Finishing a special Christmas present for a friend, that he really loved in the end even if I delivered it in January, sketching live in Nature, working at my massive decluttering and organization project, and a Date With Myself at IKEA on a weekday of course. I must do that more often!

Monica xoxo