Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

Congratulations, we survived the holidays! If you are like me, you are probably still trying to get life back in order or maybe salvage what remains of your day-to-day routine. Or, like me, you may be learning that some parts of your routine just weren’t working anymore and you need to change things to adapt with the season. New year, new changes, or as some say new resolutions.

I know we are already a month into 2026, which honestly is hard enough to believe. But that doesn’t mean its too late to start thinking about what you want this year to be. Where do you want your focus to be? Do you want to start your typical health goals? Focus more on your career or family? Are you looking out into the world or within? Maybe these questions are too philosophical and to be honest I don’t even know why I am asking them; this is not what I was intending to write about today. But here I am.

The reality is that these are questions that everyone typically thinks about at the end/beginning of a new year. I know I definitely have. I have a journal and vision board of different things I want to do and accomplish this year. I did the same thing last year, and I will do the same thing next year. It is common practice to make new years resolutions. Lists of goals you wish to achieve or maybe changes you want to make. Even within the corporate world, the start of a new year typically come with big changes. Re-structuring happens, some get promoted, others get laid off. New years bring new changes.

For me it makes me think about the story about the two wolves. I’ve only heard this story through word of mouth so I don’t know where it originated from and I don’t take credit for it, but essentially a grandfather tells his grandson a story about two wolves fighting. One wolf represents good things, love, compassion, joy, kindness, etc. The other wolf represents the bad things: evil, lies, greed, etc. As the wolves are fighting the grandson asks his grandfather, ‘which wolf will win?” and the grandfather responds with “whichever wolf you feed.” But its not just characteristics that this applies to, but everything within your life. What you speak. What you focus on. If you speak negative words and focus on the negative, then the negative will win. You will be miserable and you will think about all the ‘bad things that happen to you’. Whereas if you focus on the positive, speak positive, likewise you will see a shift happen. The negative things will start to have less of an impact on you and you will have a more positive filled life. Like attracts like as they say.

Which wolf are you going to feed this year?