Setting Up Your Best Year Yet: Planning for Success in the New Year

As first-generation women and trailblazers, we often begin the year full of excitement, big dreams, and powerful intentions. The last few weeks have been about celebrating how far you’ve come, your wins, your growth, and the Amigas and community that helped you get here. Now, it’s time to shift from reflection to preparation.

Setting up your best year yet isn’t about perfection or doing more. It’s about creating a structure that supports you not on your best days, but rather for the hard ones. When motivation fades or life gets complicated, your systems, habits, and Amigas will carry you forward.

At La Primera, we believe consistency is built through intention and community. That’s why planning with your Amigas by your side matters.

Here’s a simple 3-step process to help you start the New Year strong:

1. Clarify Your Annual Goals — Then Break Them Down

Big goals are exciting, but they can also feel overwhelming. Start with one or two annual priorities, then break them into monthly deliverables. Use tools from Align Your Week and Empower Your Life to turn those deliverables into weekly actions that feel doable.

If goals need adjusting, that’s not failure, it’s strategy. Revisit the goal-setting framework to realign as life evolves.

2. Build Habits That Support Real Life

I’m famous for starting January with ambitious exercise goals seven days a week, long workouts only to watch them disappear when stress hits. This year, my focus is consistency, not intensity. I’m starting slow, staying realistic, and honoring my energy.

Structure should support you when excitement fades. Realistic plans are sustainable plans.

3. Leverage Your Amigas for Accountability and Support

Your Amigas help you stay consistent. They remind you why the goal matters, help brainstorm solutions, and encourage you when momentum slows. Share your goals, check in regularly, and celebrate progress, even the small wins.

Finally, remember to schedule rest and celebration. This will ensure you stay charged, ready and happy for all roadblocks to come. Everything you want is attainable. You can do this.

Today is a Happy Day!