Are you ready for the 2.0? I know I AM! 🔥 2026 Resolutions

You know this is not the first time I say the 2.0 version of me is coming, I’ve tried so many times to shed my old self and to step into the new but I think what I wanted to shed wasn’t really what was the issue.

**Fitness: **I always wanted to be fit but I never really thought “Why” and “How”, I just wanted to lose weight for an occasion, summer body, to impress someone..etc. all of them are not sustainable, all of them are nothing about me! and Because I never felt confident in one thing in fitness, it was always something that caused me insecurity, not major insecurity but like it stresses me out the thought of going to the gym seeing that people there are mostly fit and they know what they are doing.

And last time I took gym seriously it was part of a fitness challenge at the gym in the building where I worked, and the instructor was Haywane (no need to translate to the foreigners) anyways I told her I can’t lift what she’s asking me to lift and she kept on saying its in the mind, in the mind until I pushed through and BOOOOMM!! like a lightening of fire struck me from my lower back to my neck, and boy…..It was such a bad back injury, I still suffer from it! but it was so bad that some days I just couldn’t walk! it hit the nerves that reached my legs, it was HORRENDOUS! just for that lil bitch to say “its in the mind” well dear now its in the “mind, ass, back and legs” thank you for your contribution.

So that incident put me off from lifting entirely, and I hate being indoors anyways! and also I’m very sensitive to smells, so being locked up indoors sniffing others sweat is literally my idea of a nightmare (right after going to malls on weekends..Ayyyyyy)

And because everyone around me associate “Being fit” with “Gym” I took the decision that I don’t want to be fit! khalas if thats the only way to be fit then I don’t want it!

But then Dubai fitness challenge started few years ago, and I tried it for the first time, I started testing out different things, and I was like…Aha! 💡

It doesn’t have to be disgusting! Spinning classes outdoor on the beach or in a park are really fun!! Boxing is really fun! Paddle boarding is not “fun” but its relaxing and its something in the water which I enjoy, Some types of Yoga I enjoy and it makes me feel good as well, tried volleyball few times and I really liked it! it’s also fun because I end up doing alot of stupid shit that makes me crack up…so it made me realise fitness doesn’t have to be indoors, smelly & boring where every minute pass like 50 years.

And then one day I was scrolling on my phone and I saw an ad for tennis group classes, and my entire life I used to look at people playing tennis and I think “wow” and I think tennis players are sexy! so! I was like you know what maybe I suck at fitness but its a group class and it’s called “Adult fun night” so its nothing serious, let me go try…and I went! and I remember when I was a kid, I once held someone’s tennis racket and it felt soo heavy! and it was stuck in my head that Tennis rackets are heavy and that its super hard to hit a ball, but when I went this time I was I think 28 or 29 years old, I held the racket and it wasn’t heavy at all!…and I fell in love!

I fell in love with tennis, if I can play tennis everyday, I would!! the only reason I stopped playing last year is because I couldn’t afford it! minimum I can find is 100 AED per class, and I don’t know any friend who plays so we can go play together for free, but if there wasn’t financial constrains, I’d play tennis every day.

Why?

1. The way my brain is wired, it runs 1000/mph it’s always filled with ideas, thoughts, overthinking things that happened…etc. so my brain never stops! and when I try to meditate I just struggle.

So when I played tennis, I noticed that for that hour my brain goes blank! my entire focus is just shifted to hit the ball! so I don’t think about anything else or anyone for one full hour, it’s just me and that ball which is coming my direction.

2. I’m super competitive, well I was even more competitive back in the days, I always needed to win in every game, you should ask my friends/ex-colleagues who we worked at the agency together for 7 years haha! man I’m a walking “headache” in all the social outings! whenever a game is involved, I NEED TO WIN!

One of my favorite thing that we used to do, in Ramadan since we finish work by 3 PM, we used to stay in the office and play Counter Strike, mostly guys who joined and few girls who were curious, but me!!! I was in it to win it! it was me and another guy who’s even more competitive than me! we would go head to head! ABSOLUTE BLOOD BATH!

And it brings me so much joy to say! I used to beat him! almost 99% of times, even though its sooo close the scores to each other! but I win! I had insane reflexes like I’d be shooting front and flipping to shoot back in 0.001 seconds, so it was me and him always competing for the titles and the rest of the guys dragging behind, and if you enter the office after 3 pm you’d just hear shouting all across!!! it’s like those gaming cafes where teenagers hang out haha! literally! what a fun place to work at (it was!)

And we would play the “Italy” or “Assault” map when we have noobs joining, but when it’s pro mode we hit the “Pool” map as that’s a quick shooting game and the survival of the fittest, again ABSOLUTE BLOODBATH!!!

But as I grew older, I stopped being that competitive, I mean I’m still am! but I don’t get angry if I don’t win, it doesn’t matter! especially like ‘Bowling” or “Top Golf” yeah it’s just not my thing hahah so as long as I’m not the last! and the joke of the outing, I’m okay with anything!

So in tennis, I get competitive but mostly competitive with myself, I want to hold a rally as long as I can, I want to impress myself with being consistent and learning new things that I wasn’t able to do last time.

I realised when I play a competitive game, all of this “one minute feels like 50 years” vanish! even basketball, same guy we competed in counter strike he was actually my bestfriend for so many years, so we used to go to JVT basketball court and just shoot hoops and it’s so much fun because we are both competitive and we just play and laugh and talk about life (or try to as mostly we are just sarcastic) so even then I didn’t feel time.

3. Sexy! Tennis is Sexy! as simple as that! so if I look at those players and think they are sexy then I want to be one of them. simple.

So basically, I started finding the “fitness” things that I actually enjoy! because working out doesn’t have to be hell by default, and I should stop being bothered trying to match what others “enjoy” like gym and running, I hate both! and that’s it. end of discussion.

The aim for 2026 is to be FIT AS FUCK! I’ve always had that vision of myself, so this year I’ll make this vision a reality, but it will be harder than normal because I’m a foodie and that will not change, I will never forbid myself from eating something I’m craving, whenever I went on a diet or had any restriction to make “healthier choices” I became the most miserable human on the planet, I don’t want it! if it was either/or then I’d actually choose being a foodie over fit, as that brings me way more joy!

Dude you can’t imagine how much I love food! like I’m not a person who dance’s in general in life, and the only time I dance is when I order something and the delivery guy comes and rings the door bell! I literally cannot hide my smile! even though I’d be alone at home! but I’d be smiling from one ear to the other and I’d dance my way to the sofa with the bag of whatever junk is jiggling in my hand hahhahaha.

And I know “Abs are built in the kitchen” okay Karen, shut up would you? I’ll make it happen in one way or the other. Inshallah!

**Looks: **You know the saying “You’re not ugly you’re just poor” yeah fam it’s true..it’s true! so once the money starts flowing in I’d be going to all of those things that my sister do! one day “Dubai Beauty Injection” the other “Salmon Sperm Facial” and whatnot! I’d treat myself like the queen that I am (which was hidden under the burdens of life and the Strong Indepedent woman shit that drove me to the rock bottom).

Ummm, I’m on the fence with the botox thing, I do see lines forming predomenantly, so maybe i’ll have a lil botox as it’s not a big deal, in Selling sunset on Netflix they have them on the snack bar in parties:
Heyyyy babe have you grabbed yourself an injection??? I swear this is SOOOOO GOOD like O.M.G!

Yeah not a big deal, I might do but its not like bothering me much, so I’ll see…fillers however as it stands, its a big no no! and also it doens’t make sense that i keep on shitting on the Silicon bitches that got me fired, and then I become one of them…A WALKING FIRE HAZARD! not because they are hot! but as in literally inflameable!

**Health: **Alhamdellah I have good health, god so far has been gracious and I didn’t have any darastic health issues in my life, well technically mental health is major! but honestly I came to the realisation after enough trials and errors and life experience that there’s nothing wrong with me mentally! it’s just who I am! and because the world/society only validates you if you have a “label” and I kept on trying different “labels” to see what fits, “Severely Depressed” “Bipolar” “Anxious” “PTSD”..etc. only to realise that there’s nothing wrong!

I’ve been through alot! it’s my unrealistic expectations of myself and the comparison with others that makes me think something is wrong with me, but the reality is I don’t know not one single human that has been through as much as I’ve been through, especially the intensity and frequency, like I literally go through 6 life shattering things at one go, and then I’d be upset that I got depressed? like seriously?

So! Health wise inshallah I will not let myself reach mentally where I used to reach before, I’ll still have down time surely as I’m only human! and life is ups and downs, but I don’t want to hit the absolute rock bottom that makes me give up on life again (Inshallah) I’ll work harder to prioritize fixing my survival raft and also to strategize better for the next battle.

Back pain is fine I manage it. some days its bad and some days its okay, but also sitting behind a desk 9 hours a day didn’t help, so now that I’m back to my normal human functioning state, the more I move/walk the more the pain ease…because we’ve already established what a wise woman once said “It’s all in the mind” 😿…sure.

I’ll get again my “PCOS” symptoms in check, I’ve completely ignored that part for the last year, because when you’re in survival mode, even the tiniest things you become unable to do, so I’ll get back in check 🙏

**Travel: **Yoooo!! I’m so excited for this! I can’t even! like I can’t!!!!!!!

Major part of “The Stupid Theory” will be that!!! and I can’t wait to share that part of me with the world, because I know its so unique! the way that I used to travel my entire life and the things I experienced it’s so unlike the norm, at least for the arabs its not the norm!

so I always came back with the most interesting/hilarious stories..as while yes sometimes I do touristy stuff but mostly I “actually experience culture” which is soo different.

So yeah I want to do more of that, and some will be solo, some will be with friends and what I’d love to try the most with “Family” I’d love to take my sister, Adam & Celine on a trip that I plan, there’s alot that I’d love for the kids to experience, see, hear about, I want them to try things that they never knew existed.

There’s something that always excites me when I see the world through the eyes of those who I love, like when I take a friend to a place that I know they’d love and its something that I already experienced, their joy is what brings me absolute happiness! so I want to do that with the kiddos inshallah too, and ALSO! Mama & Baba It’s on top of my priorities list to take them to travel the world with me, but that would require me being financially well off! as I’d be spending for 3 humans, so I don’t see that happening first half of 2026 but second half I think I’ll be closer to that, we’ll see.

Money & Business: I’ve covered that topic already here, so I won’t go into it again, so for 2026 I will not be a Billionaire, but the Billionaire project will be launched towards the end of it, however, the other income sources I believe before the end of 2026 I’d have the following:

1. I’m making above 150k AED a month (through different sources)
2. I’d have a downpayment saved to buy my first home in 2027 which will be a townhouse/villa as I want my own big space and also a place for Mama & Baba whenever they come.

There’s a chance that I’d hit the millionaire status, but I don’t know and I’m not bothered by it! so if it happens goodies, and if not then it’s 2027 inshallah.

**Love: **When we viberate on a higher level, we attract people who viberate on the same level, and when it comes to love it was never for me a checklist of how the person should be/look like, even though I have core things that I learned are important for the relationship to survive. But all the experiences that I lived, it was always a divine connection, something that I didn’t plan or look for, and it was what I needed at that stage in my life whether to teach me a lesson, or to help me pass that level.

So I’d leave everything when it comes to Love, to god to decide what is best for me and when, I’ll surrender that entirely, but god if you are reading this, then just to let you know I’m not interested in living this experience 👇

So yeah, please lets aim for a better timeline! Thank you and appreciate your understanding 🙏

Yeah peeps that’s all! you know my entire life I’ve always wrote resolutions that never saw the light, but they were always for the wrong reasons or in the wrong seasons, and my last year’s resolution was only one:
To survive.

And I did survive so for the first time in my life I’ve actually ticked off a resolution, and for 2026 I’ll be working on the above, not as an obsession as “IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN” but more like, I’d really like if I become the person above, that’s all…..don’t pressure yourself “Little Leeno ❤”