Hello and happy new year. We made it. We made it to 2026. Can you believe it?

I'm not sure about you, but I got to tell you something. 2025 was a year of, you know, this word

transformation seems to be overused these days, but it was.

I mean, it was a year of so much transformation.

And I'm curious if you know or if you've ever heard that last year, or actually we're still

a little bit in it, in 2025, if you follow the Chinese zodiac, it was the ear of the snake,

which is shedding, removing the old over and over and over again. And that was the theme.

I myself, I kept saying, wow, there's another trigger. Why am I experiencing this again? And what I

realized is that we can work, do that beautiful trigger work. But if we don't get that root,

it's going to keep surfacing until we go grab that route. And that was not just my theme. I realized

in doing all the work with the online courses and the live events and all the things

that I did all last year. And even with my friends and family, there was a lot that was coming up

for every human last year. So it's exciting to be now stepping into 2026. The other thing I heard

last year is interesting. I'd be out in my kayak, I remember last summer, and I'd be

paddling along, and it'd be during something that was coming up. And I kept saying, I kept asking,

what is going on? Why does this feel so heavy right now? And I kept hearing the same phrase over and

over and over again. And it was this, you're moving through the eye of the

needle. You're moving through the eye of the needle. Every time I asked the question, I kept hearing that.

And I sat with it and I said, what the heck does that mean? And here's what I realized. It wasn't just

me. It was humans in general. That is what we're doing. When we move through the eye of the needle,

what that means to me is we're moving from this old self, the false self, the self that wears all

the masks to fit in. We're moving through the eye of the needle. We can't take all that with us.

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