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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We appreciate you being here with us, and we hope that your 2026 is truly incredible! You deserve to have a spectacular year, you magnificent unicorn of a human!  🦄

Big joys are wonderful, but they’re rarer: weddings, promotions, dream trips, huge milestones. A joyful life doesn’t come from chasing those highs; it comes from noticing the hundreds of small glimmers that pass by each week. Micro-joys are tiny sparks of delight, warmth, connection, or softness that shift your emotional landscape one moment at a time.

A year rooted in micro-joys isn’t about forcing positivity, it’s about training your attention to find what's nourishing, even in an ordinary or stressful day. And often, it’s the tiny, almost-missed moments that change us the most: the pause, the warmth, the softness we allow ourselves to feel.

When you learn to notice micro-joys, you begin to see that life isn’t only lived in the big chapters, but in the subtle, sacred sentences in between. There’s beauty waiting for you in the nuance and it deepens your world one quiet spark at a time.

How to cultivate micro-joy all year:

✅Action step: Today, pause for five seconds when you notice something pleasant: let it register before moving on.

^{Love, Lola Graham}

Happy New Year! It is that time of year again when people set New Year's Resolutions, but the reality is that around 80% of people fail at their resolutions, and around 40% quit after only January.

So here are 3 tips to help you crush yours! 

Tip 1: Take the goal and turn it into tangible and measurable actions.

Be more active → Average walking 7,000 steps a day and go to the gym 2 times a week.

This went from a broad goal to something that can be actually measured and accomplished.

Tip 2: Turn it into a habit

Ex. Average walking 7,000 steps a day and going to the gym 2 times a week.

If you already average 5,000 steps a day, then you would need an extra 2,000 per day. It takes, on average, 10 minutes to walk 1,000 steps. So a habit could become going for a 20-minute walk on your lunch break every day. 

For the gym, 2 times a week a good idea would be to pick the exact days and times each week you’ll go and put them in your calendar. Then have your gym bag packed the day before to reduce friction on the day of. 

Tip 3: Make the habit more fun!

For the walking, maybe pick a coffee shop 10 minutes away to grab yourself a coffee or green tea as a little halfway reward. 

For the gym, maybe it is listening to music, a podcast or going to a type of exercise class you enjoy. 

The more enjoyable the habit becomes the easier it will be to stick to it.

Note: expect imperfection, you might get sick, emergencies might happen, stuff will come up and throw you out of the routine. That is ok, that is life, shit happens!

The best thing to do is remember this is a bump in the road and not a reason to completely stop. You can do this!

And if you aren’t a New Year’s Resolution type person, that is ok too!

✅ Action Step: Take your New Year’s Resolution and use the 3 tips above. Remember, habits don’t form in 28 days; that is BS, it can take up to or more than 250 days, so stick to it, you can do it! 

PS. We have a few spots in our client roster right now. If you want personalized support and help, reply to this email, and we can see how we can help. 

^{By: Joshua Graham}

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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