New year, new me is such a scam. People believe it’s a great start to a fresh life, or to rebrand of themselves. People will go to the gym and be consistent for a week, then fall right back off the band wagon and go back to their old “last year” habits. People say “2026 will be my year of change!”. Well why wasn’t 2025? It doesn’t need to be a-whole-nother year for you to decide to change. My new year’s resolution is for growth. I don’t want to change my life; I want to improve it. 2025 was the best year I had for sure, and I want to keep that momentum going. In 2025, I participated in my first stage rally (Sandblast Rally look it up ;)), I became captain of the women’s lacrosse team at my high school, I graduated, traveled to France, Germany, and Austria (und nur auf französisch und deutsch gesprochen), moved to New York, traveled to Canada, and explored the majority of New York State (ongoing). Needless to say, last year was very eventful and full of ups and downs. Since moving, I’ve had no friends just lots of family, getting used to the snow and cold, and I’ve had to actually do life. Which honestly, hasn’t been that bad. Back to the topic, I don’t want to change anything. I don’t want to revamp myself. I want to grow even more into the person I’m supposed to become. I already have lots of events lined up for me in 2026. I will be competing in FOUR Stage Rallies. I will be running a half marathon in March. I will be doing a New England road trip and a Canada road trip. That hits the points of travel and stage rally off of my 2026 resolutions. The rest is just improvement of my skills I have acquired already. Get more fluent in French (especially) and German, eat and move for my health not to fit into whatever trend is going around at the time, record lyrics for my album, and most of all: Be myself. Be authentically me. Be real. Don’t change or put on this face mask for different people. The moment you just keep being yourself and stop trying to impress other people is the moment you’ll truly be happy with who you are. Give less fucks. If they don’t like who you are, if they think your annoying, who gives a fuck? You will be ultimately more happy and more real and that’s when you’ll surround yourself with the people who add light to your life. New Years Resolutions should be about improving your current life not changing who you are. Go with the flow and trust the universe.

Love you guys,

Lin