70: Beyond Resolutions: How To Build Your Aligned 2026 Fitness Blueprint

Most people set New Year's goals that look impressive on paper but feel exhausting in practice and - let's face it - don't typically get accomplished. 

What if there was a completely different approach? 

In this Group X Appeal episode, Kimberly and Terry kick off 2026 by guiding you through how to create your 2026 Fitness Blueprint—not a restrictive plan you'll abandon by February, but an aligned, heart-centered vision that fuels you all year long.

Tune in to Learn About:

• Vision Casting - Define what you want your life to actually look and feel like
• The Six Pillars of Well-Being - Understand multiple dimensions of wellness to create sustainable, lasting transformation
• An Inspired Goal-Setting Method - A proven framework for creating goals with clarity, purpose, and actionable momentum
• Monthly Milestones Over Yearly Resolutions - Break your year into achievable cycles that make sense and feel doable
• Your One Word for 2026 - Anchor your entire year with a guiding theme that keeps you focused and inspired

This isn't about perfection. It's about clarity, intention, and building a year with purpose, passion, and joy. 

Whether you're a fitness professional planning your career evolution or an enthusiast ready to make this year different, this episode sets the tone for what's truly possible when goals come from the heart, not just the head.

Ready to step into 2026 fully prepared? This is where it begins.

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Transcript

This isn't about resolutions. This is about alignment, intention, and building a year that feels good, not just looks good. Yes. And if you want guidance to set heart-centered goals and step into 2026 fully prepared, subscribe now and share this with a friend who's ready to build their best year yet.

Kimberly/terry (00:53)
Welcome to the first episode of the year. Happy 2026. And today we're creating your 2026 fitness blueprint. That doesn't just have to be fitness, but just overall blueprint for a healthy way of life. Don't you think? Let's do that. I think we should do that. We're talking about mindset movement, your personal vision that will make this your strongest year yet. This is the episode that is designed to set the tone for what's possible. So we've got

Five things we want to cover for you. And my brother Terry over here is going to kick us off. Well, let's kick this off episode number 70. And by the way, I'm Terry shorter. This is Kimberly Spreen Glick. I forgot that part. You don't forget who you are. now we have introduced ourselves and absolutely. So let's get this party started. to save me. I appreciate that. So like Kimberly said, we've got five basic point.

points that will hopefully help, like she said, set this year up for success right out of the gates. And these are ideas that you can implement literally right away. Some of the elements that we're going to be sharing with you today, we have much deeper dives in some past episodes. And we're going to reference those episodes throughout today's episode. So you'll want to write this down. Or of course, you can just press Rewind. That works too. But you're not going to want to miss this stuff because I call this the good stuff. This is the good stuff.

So let's not miss the good stuff. So the very first step, you know, in making sure that you are about to have the best year possible is what we call simply vision casting. What is your vision for this year? Define what you want your life to look like this year. Don't necessarily, you know, think about what you want it to look like next year, right? That's way too late. That's too far. Let's live in it. I can't that far ahead. I can't either, especially, especially nowadays at my age. So, um,

Take it back. ⁓ Yeah. So define what you want your life to look like this year and in what area specifically and Kimberly is going to go over that in a little bit more details, just in terms of more specific areas that you can really identify that you really want to work and put more energy into. But, ⁓ you know, for me personally, I want this year, I want this to be my healthiest year. yeah. Yeah.

and I'll share, and this is another thing you'll not want to miss, we're going to have you in the very last step. We're going to share our, ⁓ what would you call it, our inspired word or our? Our word for the year. Our word for the year. She's going to share hers, I'll share mine. ⁓ So you'll want to stay tuned for that. Definitely. Right. So what does your vision look like? And paint the picture and don't be afraid to put yourself in it because you deserve your vision. Right? You've retired.

Yeah. And when I think about vision too, I always think about, we want it to be inspired. You don't want it to be the vision that you think you're supposed to create for yourself or what other people's people are expecting, but based on your own kind of core values and what inspires you, you know, what does your best life look like going into this year? Yeah. What juices you up? What gets you excited to wake up every morning as Marie Kondo would say, what sparks joy? Oh yeah, that's easy. That's easy enough. I like it. So what about, um,

Number two. So the second thing we wanted to share with you would be the six dimensions of wellbeing. So if you've been with us for a while, you are, you are familiar with the six dimensions. In fact, you know them as the sexy six. Yes, that's absolutely true. ⁓ and, and you can dive back into them if you want to go back to episodes six through 13. That's right. We took that many episodes to cover all the dimensions of wellbeing, but we're just going to do kind of a high level overview here.

So you can think about as you're, setting the vision for yourself, or you could think of it as your inspired goal for the year, ⁓ where you want to put your intention, your focus, cause we all know where your focus goes. Your energy flows. have of course your physical wellbeing, which would be movement to exercise, how you fuel yourself, how well you rest and recover. So those are episodes six, seven, eight, nine, 10, ⁓ side note, but we cover all the physical in multiple episodes. And, ⁓ then you have your emotional wellbeing, your ability to.

you know, regulate how you're feeling, your mindset to basically be in control of your life, not let your life be in control of you, not just be someone who, ⁓ who reacts to circumstances, but makes you, you you choose how to move through your day and through your life. so that's your emotional wellbeing, intellectual wellbeing, of course, being the fact that not only do we want to fuel our bodies with healthy, good fuel, but we want to fuel our minds in a healthy way as well. So what are you focusing on when it comes to

What you're taking into your brain. What are you watching? What are you listening to programming? Yeah. What are you reading? And so that is your intellectual wellbeing. And then of course your spiritual wellbeing. And this could be, you know, whatever that is for you. So if you practice a religion, that could be how you explore your spiritual path, or if it's just through a different wisdom tradition or certain philosophy that you live by, but it's just this recognition that we're all connected. And there's this, this, you know,

greater power, call it God, call it universal intelligence. If you're more into quantum physics and more of the science approach, but there's, just an energy that connects us all. That's why we're hardwired for connection. And that's also kind of a search for purpose, not kind of, it is our search for purpose in life. That's your spiritual wellbeing. Is that something you want to focus on this year? Or are you more leaning into environmental, clear, environmental wellbeing, which would be maybe your

relationship with nature, maybe getting out in nature more, maybe getting out into kind of cleaning up nature and taking care of our earth. or maybe it's the environment that you spend time in indoors. It's your office, it's your home. Maybe you need to declutter. Maybe you need to kind of work on making a space spark more joy. ⁓ so sometimes when we focus on, ⁓ leveling up the space where we spend time, it can have a huge impact on our productivity, on our bandwidth, on our energy.

So environmental well-being is a really important part of our day-to-day. Is that where you want to put some energy? And then finally, of course, there's social well-being. Do you feel like you need to lean into relationships more this year? So your friends, your family, your peers, your coworkers, the community that you hope to serve, are these relationships being nurtured to the level that you'd like to see them? Or is that something that you'd like to put as an intentional, inspired goal and part of the vision that you have for your life this year?

Those are the dimensions of wellbeing, the sexy six, as Terry likes to call them, but your physical, your emotional, your spiritual, your environmental, your social, your intellectual, it's all part of the experience that we get to have here. Yeah. And for you, Kimberly, personally, is there any particular area more specifically that you're putting your energy more into than others this year? Yeah, that's a great question. And for me,

You know, I'm, I'm always trying to focus on all, all of them. You're a juggler. I'm a, well, not even really a juggler. It's just that it's so much easier than people think to nurture all of them. ⁓ But for me, the two that I would say bubble up the most would be my social wellbeing and making sure that I'm not so buried in work and just getting stuff done that I'm, not nurturing the connections that matter to me. And, ⁓ environmental is just getting out in nature more. I mean, I get out pretty.

Pretty often, but in my opinion, it's kind of never often enough. And I wanna explore more out in nature. There you go. Yeah, how about you? Love it. Well, I think 2025- you mentioned health, so For me, 2025 was really about emotional well-being. was really my focus. And I'm glad that I spent the time and the energy and put the attention into that area of the sexy sex. This year, it's about

the physical part, getting the rest, getting the movement in, getting the recovery and the right food in as well, getting that rebalance, reharmonized again, because I was kind of struggling in that area this year. I've never had as many injuries, I don't think in my entire life, than this year or so, this past year. But again, I was- don't know what you're talking about. None whatsoever. It couldn't possibly be our age.

Yeah, but you I don't have any regrets because what I was focused on in 2025, was it was it was definitely needed. Yeah. And so feeling good about that. So now I have that patterning down. have that system down. And now I can not necessarily divert the attention, but now I can balance things out.

on the physical side now. Awesome. Yeah. I love to hear that. Great question. So the first few steps again, once you have kind of created that vision first, so kind of going macro to micro basically is what we're doing. Once you found that vision or identify what your vision is as a whole, and then you started identifying within those six pillars of wellbeing, okay, what areas do you want to focus on? Because they're still big areas, right? Not as big as a vision, but

making sure that those six pillars of wellbeing align with your vision, of course, that sends you into the next step, which would be simply creating the plan. Absolutely. Right? Getting into action without having plan. dream without a plan is just a dream. It's just a dream. Just a hope, just a prayer. And all those things are great, but you have to have the action put behind it. And it comes down to goal setting. Like, okay, now let's put a plan of action together.

And there's different goal setting plans that are out there in the, universe that you can, you can use, you can, you know, ⁓ get incredible results from, but we've been talking about one in particular that we feature in episode number 17 that was developed by my partner in crime, Ms. Kimberly spring click. So it's the power system, power goal setting system that is very systematic. is easy to remember.

And it is also available not just through episode 17, but if you want to go even deeper, like into a deeper dive, you have a workshop that's available at the Inspired Life University. And so you want to break that down? Yeah, you know, it's just a, I have a workshop and an instructor training to teach people how to become power coaches. So it's basically just being able to learn this very simple, but wildly effective five-step goal setting process that is completely inspired. has a couple of elements that

You know, quite honestly, I've, I've worked with, and a lot of us have worked with other goal setting methods, like the smart goal setting method. Nothing wrong with it. give it props. I used it for years. I used to like live, eat, dream about smart goal setting. and it has a lot of good elements, but it was missing a few things, ⁓ two in particular, ⁓ that caused me to, to create power. And so, ⁓ yeah, I encourage you to dive into episode 17 to learn what those five steps are.

And of course, power is an acronym, so you'll learn what those letters stand for. And you could try to incorporate it into your life or go to theinspiredlifeuniversity.com if you wanna dive deeper into just taking the workshop where I deep dive for about an hour and a half into each step of the power process. And then of course, you can take it further if you decide you want to become a coach and coach others through it. Okay, so you just left them, you just left everybody wanting, frothing at the mouth. think that was a huge tease.

at least share what does power the acronym stand for. You got it. I'm going to try really hard to share it without going to share without sharing it. going to. Yeah, because I tend to I tend to go deep into each step, but ⁓ overview high level, just the word P is for present because you got to know where you are. Yeah. is for outcome because you got to know where you want to go. That's point A point B. W is your why.

If you don't have a why, you don't have fuel for the journey. That's one of the things smart goal setting is missing. And then E is experience, both the experience you have so far that can help move you toward the inspire goal you've set for yourself, your vision. And then what experience you need to create next. So this is your action planning. And then the R is the other thing I think is missing in just about every goal setting process out there. You got to revel. So R is a revelment, learning how to celebrate your wins, both small and large, because that actually triggers things in the brain.

that builds your confidence or clarity and gives you fuel for the journey as well. Absolutely. There's that good. That was pretty good. could not do it that way. I was just like, watch episode 17. You'll be fine. Yeah, you can't leave them in that much suspense. I know, but still episode 17 is a lot more detailed. It does. It does for sure. And again, go to the inspired life, um, university to go in much, much deeper. Um, and for instructors to instructors get CECs also for

Yeah training the the power workshop and the power training. Okay, absolutely Fantastic. Yeah, so through American Council for exercise and nasa and an afa afa So she has them all all the things. she is hooking you up. That's what I do That's how she I try that no, she does she does she doesn't try she does so So those are the first three steps number four once you have that plan your goals the plan of action in place Kimberly's gonna take us through the next step number four. Yeah

You can come. No, it's all you. ⁓ It's all you. I just realized where I was, who I am and what I'm doing here. That was a pretty good catch. That was awesome. That was a nice save. You didn't even notice, did you? ⁓ So we look at this this year. So we have 2026. This is like this, as they say, it's this this unwritten book and you're the author. Right. So we can look this big full year and create this vision for how

how we wanna spend the year, how we wanna be living, the things we wanna be doing, the people we wanna be doing them with, and more importantly than anything, how we wanna be feeling through the year. But to look at the whole year can be a pretty massive overwhelming vision. so to try to create a plan that maps out every single step can be, like I said, overwhelming and quite daunting is the perfect word. So what about monthly milestones?

What if you were to start here in January and look ahead, you know, by the end of January, by the end of February, by the end of March, you know, break the year down instead of it being this big, massive undertaking into these monthly cycles. So each month, if there was one thing that you could accomplish or, or a step you could take toward that vision that you have for yourself for this year, like what would that be?

And then of course, don't forget the R in power is to revel. So as you accomplish each milestone, as you reach that milestone, which in the moment might seem like a small win as compared to the larger vision, that's okay. The small wins need to be celebrated just as much as the larger wins. So celebrate along the way. And I promise you, you will feel more inspired and motivated to keep moving forward. So monthly milestones.

break it down, that horrible old saying like, do you eat an elephant one bite at a time? I wouldn't eat an It is the worst saying ever, but it's a common business saying. We used to hear it in corporate. Some good sauce. I don't think there is a sauce in the world. They could make me an elephant. But if I were to eat an elephant, how would you do it? It would be one bite at a time. Right. So there we go. I'm encouraging you one bite at a time for the year that is apparently the elephant.

No, it's horrible. There's some really horrible things. It's like the two birds with the one stone thing. It's terrible. kill There's no need to kill a bird. Or two. Or two for that matter.

my goodness. So what else we for us? Those things for sharing the breakdown, breaking down the milestones. The elephant quote. The elephant quote. So lastly, you know, this is where I shared at the very beginning, we've got our words of the year, our own guiding themes. We kind of talked about this before we pushed record today. ⁓ Come up with your one word for 2026. What is your one word that describes that's in alignment with your vision?

this year and what that will allow you to do is really anchor in your year with not just a guided theme necessarily, but also focus, right? Clarity. And for me, I'll share mine first. love her. She's not going to give you just one easy word. She takes it to a different level. You always do. good or bad. No, always good. It's always good.

Going back to my vision this year, when I mentioned, ⁓ well, not just vision, but the one of the six pillars that I want to really focus on this year is physicality, getting, making sure I'm moving, making sure I'm eating properly, making sure I'm getting the proper amount of rest in order to ⁓ accomplish that vision. My word of the year, my theme is all about consistency and consistency for me is having a schedule that is realistic.

that I can stick with, ⁓ I can find my own discipline through and still have some flexibility with it. Know that every day is not going to be perfect, but as long as I'm consistently progressing, even if it's 1%, one step forward in the right direction, I'm good. I'm happy. I know by the end of the year when I look back, that consistency. ⁓

will definitely pay off and it's not gonna be discipline and consistency is not sexy at all. A lot of times, right? It's not, ⁓ you know, it's not ⁓ some, ⁓ you know, some colorful, vibrant, beautiful thing every single day. You're not gonna, not Sometimes it's just the little things, It is, you know, I know I'm not gonna feel like a superhero every day, but I'm looking forward, you know, and expecting and just putting my place, like I said, painting myself in that.

picture of what it's gonna look like. I'm already thinking revel, revel, revel, what that's gonna look like, what that's gonna feel like and anchoring in that sensation, that experience, that vision. So what about you? So I tried real hard to narrow it down to one word, but I really settled on two. So my power words for this year are alignment and simplification. So I want to

align better. I have a tendency, you may not know this about me, but I have a tendency to, you know, want to do all things to, ⁓ I am still probably forever. It will be a, recovering people pleaser, you know, when, when people ask me to do things or be a part of projects or consult here and there, like I love to be able to support and to, uplift and add value in any way that I can. And so I typically say yes. And, ⁓

So this year I want to challenge myself to make sure before I say yes to anything that, and I encourage you to do the same, to make sure it's aligned with my core values, with the priorities that I have for my life and how I want to spend my time and my energy. Cause as I often coach, I mean, we teach and coach the things we most need to focus on, right? And I constantly am telling the coaches that I work with, you you are, you are in charge of your, your, your time and your energy. Like you have to be the guardian.

of your own time and energy. And so it's time for me to, to walk the walk. Yeah, exactly. And to really be the guardian of my time and energy and to make sure I choose things that are aligned. And then as I look at the different projects that I have, cause I still will have multiple projects and things that I work on and which I love. we're both kind of like that. love, you know, supporting and doing different things, but then simplifying, like I'm to look at whatever project or process I have in front of me and think, okay, instead of just diving deep into the weeds, stepping back first,

and saying, how can I simplify? So how can I create more ease here? And so I decided that my word is alignify. So you simplified your two words. Yeah, I simplified the two words of align and simplify. Actually, I took alignment and simplification down to align and simplify. And then I smushed them together and I made alignify. Alignify. Wait, you made alignify. What a piece of pie. What?

Just make it up words now. Just make it up random words. Make it up words that don't mean nothing like loop it. Yeah. All right. I love it. A line of fly. There's no fly. There's no fly. No fly in the soup. A line of fly. Got it. Well, those are, I think those are two solid themes for you for this year. I think so. And then what's great about this too, when you have someone that you can share these, these things with this process with,

Then guess what? You have built in accountability. Hey, so I'm going to keep an eye on her. Hopefully she keeps an eye on me and I got you. I got you. I got your back back at you. So yeah. So let us know what your one year award for 2026 is that anchor word that you're really focusing on. Right? I want to hear all the words out there. So my friends, your strongest year, it doesn't start with resolution. As we said in the very beginning, it starts with clarity. So take everything that we talked about in these

recent episodes in December, use it all with what we've covered today to build a year with purpose, with passion and with joy. Yes. And share, please again, can't say it enough. Share your 2026 year, a word of the year with us at group X appeal on Instagram, share it with us on a group X appeal on YouTube as well. We would love to hear it. Uh, we'd encourage you. We really appreciate it. It means the world to us that you follow us, please rate the show and review us to just help our community grow.

You know, we're, only get stronger when we're together. And so we really do appreciate that. Yeah, definitely. And we love to cross paths with, with our, with our peers and other enthusiasts who love Group X as much as we do. So we have two exciting things to share with you. ⁓ first and foremost, this is actually with, at the time we're filming this, this is next weekend. It's a week from, from, ⁓ from this Sunday. So it's the 11th of January. We're going to be at the LA Convention Center in Los Angeles at the Fit Expo.

I'm going to be there. We're going to be actually hosting one of the panels at 11 a.m. So definitely catch up with us there. And then we're to be sticking around and doing some interviews, some live interview, not live, but we'll be live. Yeah, we're going to recording. We're always alive. We're not going to stream it live. Maybe we should. I think we need to. You just came up with something. I think we might do a YouTube stream. We need to have to think about that. We should. So I don't know. Look, look for a post to see if we decide to do that. But the plan originally was to record.

some interviews with some great leaders and instructors that an enthusiast that are going to be there at the event. ⁓ so outside of that, we also, for all of you fitness pros out there on January 24th from two to our one to three PM Pacific standard time, Pacific standard. we standard? Let's just call us standard. Yeah. PST. So Pacific time West coast time, ⁓ which is going to be five o'clock East coast time.

Um, it's just for hour and a half, two hours, we are going to do a workshop via zoom. online it's called no sweat income opportunities for fitness pros. So we all work really hard teaching classes, training clients, and often it requires a lot of both physical and emotional output that causes a good amount of elbow grease. And as my mama used to say, but a good amount of sweat, it's physical exertion as well as emotional exertion. we want to.

talk to you about some opportunities there are for you to be able to generate an income and a livelihood for a community that you love and an industry that you adore that doesn't require so much physical exertion. Right. And that will definitely be live. That will be live. That's the one that will be live. Yeah. And we should actually do a sneak peek. Yeah, we should definitely do that. We'll offer a sneak peek in our next episode.

of this brand new workshop that we'll be releasing to the fitness pros. And even if you're not, by the way, if you're not a fitness pro and you still would love to know, how are these guys able to create livelihoods and show up with the energy and show up with the physicality and the emotion and the heart to every single one of my classes as an instructor? How do they do that? ⁓ We'll be sharing some of those elements, so don't miss out. You're absolutely welcome and invited to join us as well.

Most and who knows? mean, if you love GroupX like we do, you may decide you want to move in this direction. Absolutely. ⁓ To dive into some no sweat income opportunities yourself. So make sure you listen to our next episode where we're going to start to give you a little sneak peek of what's coming up in that GroupX appeal workshop coming up on the 24th. Yeah. So all kinds of stuff. We're off to a great start. know 2020 is going to be a good year. Yes, it is. So that is it. We hope you enjoyed today's episode. We truly appreciate you joining us today, listening, watching if you're here on YouTube with us.

and ⁓ we cannot wait to see you at one of these events that we have live and recorded as well. for registration for the workshop soon. And if you're in ⁓ the LA area, look up the, we'll put a link, but for the fit expo. Come see us. It's going to be awesome. until then I'm Terry Shorter. I'm Kimberly Spring Glick. And as always, we encourage you to make it a great day. And why? Cause it is a great day to have. It sure is. ⁓