Before You Set Your 2026 Intentions

As 2025 comes to an end,
many of us naturally turn toward reflection and renewal.
Some create vision boards.
Some write letters to their future selves.
Some quietly promise that next year will be different.

Regardless of your ritual,
before you set another intention,
there are a few things worth considering.

Do you sense that the old ways of thinking,
deciding, and measuring success
are no longer sufficient?

Linear logic, fear-based decision-making,
and identity structures built around survival
rather than truth
are quietly losing relevance.

You may notice less tolerance for drama,
less patience for noise,
and a growing discomfort with playing roles
that once felt necessary.

This feeling is not random.
Across long-cycle traditions, East and West,
2026 marks a threshold.

A shift in conditions, not outcomes.

The transition into 2026
is less about adding new goals
and more about shedding outdated operating systems.

The habits that once kept you safe,
over-explaining,
Self-doubting,
minimizing your insight,
staying in situations that drain you,
now actively limit your capacity to move forward.

Victim narratives,
emotional reactivity,
and the subtle addiction to chaos
are not personality traits.

They are programmed responses
from a narrower version of life
learned in the past.

That operating system is collapsing.
This is impermanence revealing itself.

Will you continue living as a reduced version of yourself,
or will you step into full-spectrum awareness?

The attachment to chaos,
to being needed,
to remaining entangled in situations
that drain rather than expand you
no longer comes without consequence.

What does not evolve
will erode your capacity
to receive what’s next.

Your intuition is not asking permission anymore.
It is leading.

You already know
where you’ve been diluting yourself.

Where you soften your truth
to keep the peace.

Where you translate your knowing
into something “acceptable.”

That era is complete.

Welcome to multi-dimensional living,
a way of being that requires wholeness.

Not proving.
Not explaining.
Not shrinking.

It also requires a new relationship with abundance.

Many unconsciously cap their lives
by clinging to scarcity identities:

I don’t want to hope too much.
Trust too much.
Receive too much.

When goodness arrives,
it gets downplayed,
rationalized,
or braced for disappearance.

This is not humility.
It is conditioning.

Abundance responds
to the capacity of the vessel receiving it.

This is where 2026 becomes a fork in the road.

One path leads to expansion —
creative, intuitive, sovereign, deeply fulfilling.

The other leads to contraction —
repeating patterns, louder fear, increasingly misaligned.

No one will force this choice.
No one will judge it.

But it will be made.

2026 has the potential to be epic
or painfully familiar.

Both realities are available.

Which pill will you pick?

With purpose and light,
Ryion P.
Author of Awakened Purpose
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