using your Win wall to make space for more success in 2026
Back in April, I wrote a post about the benefits of creating and using a WIN WALL. We use a collective group Win Wall in the studio, but this year I started my own personal Win Wall so that I can see physical proof and reminder of my progress. As I begin to assess 2025 in order to set up 2026, I intend to use the posts on my wall to take stock of where I found the most success in 2025 and link which efforts led to successes and which did not. Here is what I plan to do:
Take all the sticky notes off my wall and line them up on the floor each on a separate sheet of paper.
Write a stream of consciousness, no filter, brain dump list of all my creative efforts in 2025. Everything from taking a class, reading a certain book, starting a blog, reaching out to a certain individual, auditioning for a show, developing a daily voice practice (these are just vague examples, your list should be more specific). Look back at your calendar or credit card statements to get a sense of where you invested your time and money as insight into where you placed your efforts.
Then, I will look at my WINS and start to connect my WINS to my specific efforts, listing under each WIN each and every effort that helped me to achieve that marker. For example, a win for you might be landing the lead role in a show. You may link this WIN to efforts like working with a coach on your audition material, trying a new mindset technique to assist in feeling confident for your audition, working with a vocal coach on your range so that you could hit higher notes, etc.
Assess which efforts come up again and again under your WINS? Which efforts don’t seem to find a space to attribute to a WIN?
From there, use that information to inform where you should double down on your efforts in 2026. Which were your most effective efforts? Then make a plan to do more of that in 2026 and less of those efforts that didn’t lead to any WINS.
It may surprise you which efforts led to your biggest successes. In which case, it is worthy information to help you to do less of the efforts that don’t push the needle for you so that you can make more space for the efforts that do make the difference.