Written by Simone Usselman-Tod
I completed my 2026 vision board just before the New Year. Not because I was rushing or trying to get ahead, but because it felt aligned. I wanted to enter this new cycle already connected to how I want the year to feel, not just what I want to accomplish.
As I step into 2026, my vision is simple, clear, and deeply intentional: freedom, fun, and fantastic health. These aren’t goals I’m chasing. They are qualities I am choosing to orient my days around – how I want to live, work, move, and show up.
Today is January 1, 2026, the first day of the first month of a 1 year cycle. That alone makes it a natural reset point. A moment to pause. To slow down. To listen inward before moving forward.
From both experience and neuroscience, I know this matters. We don’t create meaningful change from pressure, urgency, or overwhelm. We create it from steadiness. When our nervous systems are regulated and our emotions are grounded, clarity rises naturally. Intuition becomes easier to hear. Decisions feel less forced. The next step feels lighter.
This is where visioning becomes powerful.
There’s both magic and neuroscience in intentionally imagining how we want to experience our lives. When we give the brain a clear emotional and sensory direction —
not just a to-do list — our awareness begins to shift. We notice opportunities, choices, and pathways that were always present, but harder to access when we’re stressed or scattered.
Visioning isn’t about forcing the future or controlling outcomes.
It’s about creating enough internal safety to move toward what matters — with trust, flexibility, and ease.
From here, this becomes something we share.
As we step into 2026 together, we’re invited to begin this 1 year cycle differently. Not from pressure, but from presence. Not from doing more, but from being more intentional about how we want to feel as we move forward.
We don’t need big resolutions to begin.
We need steadiness. Clarity. Self-trust.
When we start from calm, confidence grows naturally. Momentum becomes sustainable. Progress feels aligned rather than exhausting.
So today isn’t about mapping out the entire year.
It’s about choosing a direction, and taking one grounded step at a time.
We are creating 2026 from calm and clarity.
From curiosity, enjoyment, and self-trust.
From listening inward and responding rather than reacting.
Here’s to a year of freedom, fun, and fantastic health.
Here’s to beginning this 1 year cycle with intention, guided by both science and intuition.
✨ If you’d like support creating your own vision from this grounded, regulated place, you are invited to join my Dynamic Visioning™ Masterclass & Vision Board Workshop Sunday, January 11th 1-5pm.
Activate your 2026 vision in this 4-hour, in-person experience where neuroscience meets creativity. This is not a typical vision board class. You will learn how your brain actually creates change and how to use visualization, goal-priming, and emotional alignment to design a powerful year ahead.
Learn more and register at: https://tinyurl.com/Dynamic-Visioning-Jan-11-2026
Welcome, 2026. ✨
About Simone:
Simone Usselman-Tod is a science-minded, soul-guided entrepreneur committed to redefining success through holistic integration. She bridges neuroscience, psychology, and energetics to help purpose-driven women align their inner well-being with their outer impact.
With a deep belief that sustainable success begins within, Simone empowers women to nurture themselves as their most valuable resource – because when you care for your emotional, physical, and mental health, clarity, creativity, and confidence naturally expand.
Her signature coaching approach harmonizes the nervous system, mindset, and mission so that business becomes not just profitable, but deeply fulfilling, regenerative, and aligned with your true purpose.
Simone is the founder and contributes to the Wild About Wellness Community online where members passionate about holistic health and wellness come together to share information, educate and contribute for the purpose of learning and growing. You are invited to explore the site with a free 1-month membership. Get your 1-month free membership HERE. Register for our FREE monthly events HERE