Happy 2026!

As this new year begins, I’m not rushing to define it or dress it up with big promises. I’m simply welcoming the space it offers—space for honesty, openness, and meeting ourselves and each other where we truly are.

If 2026 brings anything, I trust it brings a little more presence, a little more curiosity, and a little more room to breathe. Happy New Year.

Write Another Page

What’s done is done. Create. Try something. Go. Learn. Write something new.

Explore Your Curiosity

The willingness to lean into the unknown and learn. To understand….

Wonder

Allow your curiosity to move you through what you fear…

The Discovery

Open yourself up to learning. About yourself. About others. About life. Your curiosity can help keep you moving.

Jump!

Sometimes the jump is the next step. Sometimes the jump can reveal the possibilities. Sometimes the jump can inspire courage. Sometimes the jump is absolutely necessary!

Follow Your Heart

Go where you curiosity takes you. Explore everything your heart desires.

Keep On Keeping On

Why relive an experience when you can create a brand new one?

Read More

Explore with your mind and heart and soul.

Movement

Your experiences hold you back only if you allow them.

You can use your experiences to discover, to learn, to grow. So, why not explore, wander, evolve, ascend, accept, release?

When Fear Knocks

What if you looked at your fears as opportunities? What if your opportunities are your fears in disguise?

Before you jump to the scariness associated with fears, try thinking about them differently. Imagine opportunity whispering to you through your fears. An opportunity is not without unknowns and yet, it feels different because there is a perceived benefit. A fear feels debilitating because the perceived experience is seen as discomfort, pain, or failure.

Pursuing an opportunity reveals more about it. Moving though fear reveals more about YOU.

all words: Michael Barata / image: Ricardo Retez