Starting 2026 Strong With A Goal Check-In: My New Luxury Apartment

Hello, Gorgeous!

As of February 4, 2026, I have a new apartment. 

By the time you read this, I will hopefully already be moved in. Thank you to ST Living LA for helping me find a wonderful place to live. I will never forget this. 

I feel like the luckiest girl in the world because I surrounded myself with lucky people. ST Living LA is my dear friend’s company, and he helped me find a peaceful place to sleep.

I highly recommend checking them out, because their onboarding process is so seamless. ST Living LA gives you the exhale you have been waiting for. 

So many other leasing companies have an overwhelming, stressful process. Not ST Living LA. 

This is not sponsored. Even if the owner wasn’t someone I know personally, I feel exceptionally taken care of.

I am pleasantly surprised at how easy their workflow was. They took me from point A to B without worry or adversity. 

The team at ST Living LA are professional, inordinately kind, expeditious in helping you, and most importantly – they know their stuff. I even left a review. It was quite the luxurious experience.

Creating your own luck helps when you have a circle of lucky people. 

AKA people who are better than you. Happier, smarter, more successful, more fulfilled. Those who have their life together. 

ST Living LA saved me from a bad situation that is only getting worse. 

I will get into this in another post. It is not time yet. Hopefully, once I am settled into my new place, I can go over this in more detail. 

Goal 6 is done so far. 

I still have a lot more to go, but here are the goals going well in 2026. 

• 365 days of fabulous
• Pay off my car + insurance
• Pay all my bills annually vs monthly
• 10k savings + F you money
• Move into a luxury apartment
• Go out and do beautiful things and connect with as many ladies possible
• Post 2 blogs a week
• Post 2 videos a week (except on my birthday February 28)
• LTK Videos daily
• Create a new uniform aka update my wardrobe

The next few goals are going to take a lot of discipline. 

I mapped out my expenses and expectations for the rest of the year. 

Now that I have a stable place to look forward to living in, I am strategically planning my next steps. Making small moves everyday helps and I am in full focus monk mode. No distractions. 

It also helps that my expectations are low for income, but my output will be at maximum. 

Anticipating less whilst giving my all and computing my bills to the cent are my approach. 

March is going to be the first month I can start saving. 

Yes, I am going to put everything I can aside, but I want to hasten paying off my car, its insurance, and annual bills. This way I can focus on my business 100%.

It will also accelerate my savings, because I get an annual discount when paying the yearly plans. March and April are dedicated towards this.

March will be the first month I can technically relax. But I choose not to. 

I want to grow while I have the energy in this age and push my limits. I want to see what I am capable of and set myself up for long term success. Success only worth it if it is long term. It is time to do the leg work. 

People can sum up 10 years of their accomplishments in 1 minute.

I want it to take 2. When you ask a stranger what they’re proud of, they might say, 

• Earning a degree
• Starting a family
• Buying a house
• Building a career

Those are all long term wins that anyone would be proud of. But notice they are all triumphs that take years to nourish. 

Annual bills being paid off are not an accomplishment people immediately think of. 

I want to feel safe and comfortable so I can go full Hulk smash in my business. It gets all of my attention. The motivation is to relax and show up as my best at all times for my deserving ladies.  

Q1 and Q2 are going to be work.

I choose work to start off the year. 

This is the plan.

March: Annual bills and car insurance paid off in full, rent ahead for next month

April: Car paid off in full

May: Hammer down on beautiful, inspiring content

June: Pay off my monthly rent for 6 months 

July: Smash it in business with full focus with planning the rest of the year’s work 

I think in terms of take-home pay versus revenue. 

How much I make a day minus taxes, groceries, bills, and rent for the month. That is the real number I look at. We actually make less than what we think and have to live like it. 

I realised it only takes me 7 days of full work to pay my rent, bills, and utilities. The rest of my resources go towards establishing freedom.  

The move that changed my actions: Starting acting poor

Living with what we need versus all the wants and suggestions Amazon Prime offers makes my life easy. Especially when I have a goal. Being good with money and discipline are a lethal combination that is getting me far. 

I work like I have nothing to eat tomorrow, work when I wake up first thing, and work before I go to bed as I am doing now. 

No, my health is not at risk, because I have done this before and learnt from mistakes. 

I also set up my thinking and environment to facilitate this. This also includes removing certain people from my life. Avoiding scenarios that cause friction make the everyday seamless. Efficient and effective.

Burnout does not exist, especially when you do what you love. Job your love, ladies. Job your love.

It also created another goal: learning how to communicate with fewer words

This is a long term objective I want to motion. I have observed that really smart successful people you actually want to listen to say more with less. Being versed in listening and knowing what to say is more challenging than it seems.

It is probably because they are tremendously careful with their words. And thoughts. 

I texted my friend an entire paragraph and he recaptured what I said in 5 words. That takes true skill. Likeable with saying the right things. 

I want to start thinking and speaking like this. Less time, more value. This way when I do share a monologue, it has more to offer. 

A tough question came up.

Should I grow my business faster or pay off my car steadily?

Originally I thought I could build my assets to pay off my car since it depreciates. However, my business could risk unexpected lows that I want to be prepared for. 

Perhaps I could do a hybrid but I do not want to juggle. Also, I do not want to deal with the interest rate.

The car being paid off first will benefit me greatly in the bigger picture. Big picture thinking is what long term success is all about. 

A woman who plans in months is smart.
A woman who plans in years is wise.
A woman who plans in decades is dangerous.

I want to be high maintenance about preparing for my future. 

With the least tension in every facet of my life. At your big age is one of my favourite insults. It is not cute anymore to be financially irresponsible in your thirties. Peace is expensive yet worth it. So act like it. Speak like it. Think like it. 

Cutting out all the dead weight from my life has made me fitter, think clearer, and more inspired. 

I have never had less time for fussing around. My goal is to essentially soft retire and see strides of improvement. In all the things that I found make me rich. Money does not make me rich. 

Last night I had the epiphany that I never wanted to be pecuniarily prosperous. 

I always looked at what it gave me. Living luxuriously for me was being able to do what I want whenever I want. Everyone should experience freedom and maintain it. 

This year, I want to help elegant ladies find their footing in their community. 

I want to show them what it did for me and how it excelled in every facet of my being. The physical, mental, and surroundings. The good energy that flows through any room starts with you. Same how when your mum is upset the entire household feels awry. 

Having a new beautiful home has also put peace in my heart. 

The pressure is taken away knowing the lease is not under my name. Stress from not having a dedicated parking spot is so simple yet so costly on my entire routine.

In lieu of having to wake up at 7am after the nocturnal shift ruins my entire body’s function and the night of work ahead of me. 

It also makes me resent my partner when I have to sacrifice something so small and simple. It makes the situation substantial creating a burden. I do not want to have negative feelings towards anyone. 

Being able to decorate my new home is thrilling!

I feel like me again. This last place I was living in was the most irritatingly debilitating experience I have had in a good period. Though I am grateful for having a roof over my head, I will switch my thinking to be more positive to express my thoughts on this current sanctuary. 

My new place has

• A lease with my name on it
• Dedicated secure parking
• A bathroom distant from my bedroom
• A beautiful large kitchen with a dishwasher and new high tech appliances
• Two very much needed closets
• A second room I will use as an office
• Plenty of space in the living room 
• An outdoor area where I am not spied on by the entire neighbourhood
• Central air
• AC that actually works 
• A kitchen sink faucet that stretches so I can wash produce properly 
• Laundry that is not on another floor 
• Relaxing, ambient lighting

The possibilities are endless with such simple essentials. I am so excited to start making it my own. 

At this place, I was instructed not to buy any furniture, because it was temporary. 

I am glad I did not invest that much, because moving would be a hassle. I want to live here a while and make it more accustomed to my new way of life. Versus fitting an old one into a new space. 

Now I can have a dining table, suitable dining chairs, a bed for my mattress, nightstands, and space for anything I want. My favourite room is definitely going to be the office. Every room is lovely, but it is currently bare and I want to make it an inspiration once again. 

The walls are going to be filled with colourful art. Furniture will have my heart and soul in their comfortable threads. Textiles of monogrammed towels, rugs, kitchen towels, and blankets will make it a verifiable home. Luxuriant goals. 

Wanting a home was one of my greatest ambitions.

One day I will be able to purchase a house in Los Angeles and use all the pieces in this abode as a starting point. For now, I’m curating this space for me, turning it into something special. A new chapter has started, and it only gets better from here.

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