@marlo

i wrote a long post about my 2026 theme and all it took to finally get to a place where i could achieve this, then it disappeared while i was editing a photo instead of crashing out i decided to get chatgpt to write one instead. here we go: 2026 theme: radical wealth through ecstatic creation. i didn’t pick this theme because it sounds good on a vision board. i picked it because i’ve learned—painfully—that if creation isn’t ecstatic, i’ll eventually treat my life like a job i’m failing at. and if wealth isn’t radical, i’ll keep living like i have to earn safety one exhausted day at a time. 2025 forced a reckoning. the kind where your nervous system drags you into the truth by the hair. i tried discipline. i tried hacks. i tried being “good.” and what finally moved the needle was surrendering to the obvious: my body is the gate. my attention is the altar. and if i’m not creating from aliveness, nothing i build will feel like mine. somewhere in the mess of that year—between the fatigue and the grief and the constant recalibration—i started to see the pattern i’d been repeating for most of my life: postponing joy until i was “better,” postponing wealth until i was “deserving,” postponing visibility until i was “ready.” as if readiness is something that arrives in the mail. so 2026 is the reversal. it’s me choosing ecstasy as a strategy. not the manic kind. the clean, devotional kind. the kind where you make one thing with full presence and it changes the room. the kind where your taste becomes a compass and your standards become a spell. the kind where you stop begging the world to validate you and start building artifacts that make validation irrelevant. radical wealth, for me, isn’t just money. it’s time. it’s choice. it’s breathing room. it’s being able to fund my own nervous system. it’s being able to say yes to beauty and no to chaos. it’s patronage—of myself, first—so the work can keep arriving without violence. and ecstatic creation isn’t “content.” it’s practice. it’s the daily decision to generate signal instead of noise. to turn my life into a studio, not a performance. to let desire lead, and let the how reveal itself after i move. i’m not interested in chasing. i’m interested in magnetism. i’m not interested in hustle. i’m interested in devotion. radical wealth through ecstatic creation. that’s the portal i’m walking through. new realities rendering. please stay tuned. ▮▮▮▮▯▯▯▯▯▯

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