Celebrate and Reset
Happy New Year! Here’s to 2026 being better than 2025.
I often start coaching sessions by asking two questions:
- What’s going really well?
- What could be going better?
We pause to notice what’s working and celebrate. Then we look at what’s not quite there yet and shift our attention forward, toward a better version of what’s next.
That’s the reset. Not a blank slate, but more like a thoughtful edit, a shift in focus and direction.
Here are a few gentle prompts to play with for a reset:
1. What’s one thing you’re genuinely looking forward to? (See if you can set one up for 2026.)
2. What’s one thing you want to work toward? (Pick something that feels like ease, like joy.)
3. Who’s one person you want to connect or reconnect with? (Consider how and when you’d want to reach out to them.)
4. What’s one small thing you want to experiment with? (Something you’ve always wanted to try, and now feel ready.)
Here’s what I’m thinking in my own life:
- I look forward to traveling to Australia to present at the Oceania Foresight and Futures 2026 Symposium in March.
- I want to work toward bringing up my Spanish from a low A2 level to a confident C1. It will take time, but it is exciting.
- I’d love to have more conversations with my mom, not about the every-day things but about life.
- I want to experiment with a specific way of bringing ‘sensory-based knowing’ skills to analytical thinkers.
A small reorientation can change the direction of the whole journey.
Cheers to celebrating what already works.
Cheers to resetting and starting over when we want a new direction.
And cheers to creating moments in life that make our hearts smile.
With gratitude,
Alina
Dr. Alina Bas, PCC
Executive Coach & Strategist
Adjunct Professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science
https://AlinaBas.com/schedule
Alina@AlinaBas.com
NEWS & UPDATES
2025 is ending on an exciting note: I am thrilled to be presenting at The Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium 2026 in Brisbane (Meanjin), Australia. I’ll discuss my research on wayfinding as a necessary and legitimate strategy for advancing in uncertainty, developed in collaboration with my former PhD advisor Dr Viktor Dörfler. The symposium brings together the voices highlighting Indigenous, Pacific, and Oceanic ancestral wisdom and international scholarly voices on foresight and futures. It is a rare opportunity to understand modern wayfinding through Oceanic and Indigenous lenses.
APPLIED INTUITION (holiday shenanigans)
For those of you who have known me over the years, you know that in addition to serious corporate work and teaching at NYU, I am also an intuition researcher and practitioner. An intuitive session is an energy-filled consultation based on sensing as a way of knowing; it helps get insights and attune to patterns and possibilities not accessible through analytical reasoning. Bring your questions and intentions, and we will develop actionable ideas for them by tapping into intuiting (yes, it's a 'real thing'). This session makes a great gift for yourself or for a friend. To schedule, go to AlinaBas.com/schedule, and select "Consulting Hour". Before you hit "Continue", click "Add Note" and write "Applied Intuition Session"; I'll reply with special instructions. Intuition is a natural extension of our senses. There is strong evidence for intuiting, despite not yet having a complete scientific model for producing intuition on cue. Still, like a musical ear or analytical reasoning, ability to intuit can be developed with practice, and I have been working on it for over 20 years.
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