How can I have a more positive year for 2026?

[Markness]

I really hoped 2025 was going to be a better year than 2024 was but I once again had to go through disappointments and losses. I feel like I have multiple injuries or infections but I can’t afford the treatments for them and the maladies just persist. How can I have a more positive and productive coming year?

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Markness - - - Find your people. One does not decide to bag a moose and go hunting in Saudi Arabia. What opened my life up was involvement with outdoor enthusiasts; my people.

 

[velociraptor]

I really hoped 2025 was going to be a better year than 2024 was but I once again had to go through disappointments and losses. I feel like I have multiple injuries or infections but I can’t afford the treatments for them and the maladies just persist. How can I have a more positive and productive coming year?

Set small, achievable goals. Work on one at a time. When you succeed, note it in a journal and move to the next one.

 

[Metalhead]

Move to Puyallup and go to metal shows with Metalhead.

 

[Wizardry]

What would a more positive and productive year look like to you?

 

[lunarious]

Find your people. It will be scary. But originally before reading @Gerald Wilgus I wanted to say challenge yourself and expand your comfort zone

Spoiler: Misunderstanding about Honor

People say "get out of or surrender your comfort zone", or leave your past behind. But that is only if you don't need Honor. Seeking new/old people and new/old things is seeking Honor. Honor IMHO is power and allies. Getting friends expands your Comfort Zone and it'll get easier to relax. ... I don't have friends mostly because people mostly don't offer Power/Kindness. But then i must look for such people.

Expanding your CZ might be learning one word pr. day or going to a course.

Use your youth before you lose

 

[AuAL]

@Markness, can I suggest you try to have a more positive day tomorrow than today? Look for the little things you can do and achieve. Make note of them in your own, little Gratitude Garden. At the end of the year, read it and see how far you may have managed to come. They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it was - one day, and then the next day, and then the next…

 

[Poppy98]

How can I have a more positive and productive coming year?

Social skills-wise?

I have found that telling people the reason for your question before your question and learning about boundaries has helped me communicate with (usually) far fewer headaches.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Random acts of kindness.