My Remarkable Year 2026
Live your best year yet: Join the year-long program to strengthen your well-being, achieve your goals & stay consistent with your self-development in 2026
Are you looking for more accountability, consistency, and motivation in achieving your goals?
Would you like to maintain a continuous a momentum with your self-development & well-being throughout the year?
How about connecting each month with a group of like-minded, inspiring individuals who can support you on this journey and offer fresh perspectives & ideas?
Add to that meaningful monthly conversations and engaging interactions with inspiring people that spark new ideas and growth.
Achieve your personal development goals faster and with more ease and fun – and enjoy the journey throughout this whole Remarkable Year.
Join My Remarkable Year program to unlock:
• Accountability to stay on track with your goals.
• Motivation to push through challenges and keep progressing.
• Practical, science-based tools from positive psychology to support your personal growth.
• Group support and connections that will inspire you, but also challenge you to think bigger.
• New insights and perspectives that break habitual thinking and give you a fresh view of the challenges ahead of you.
• Structured time for reflection and planning, helping you clarify your next steps.
• Consistency in building lasting well-being and self-development habits.
Why My Remarkable Year - and how will it change your life?
In My Remarkable Year you’ll tap into the four elements that propel your personal and professional growth:
• Strategy: Define your priorities, set concrete goals, and map out your year.
• Mindset: Cultivate resilience, confidence, and adaptability to tackle any challenge.
• Action: Build effective habits and take consistent steps towards your vision.
•Community/Support: Surround yourself with supportive peers to inspire you, challenge you and keep you accountable.
Each of these elements is designed to support you in building lasting change and achieving your life goals.
Next to these 4 aspect, you will learn practical tools – all grounded in the science of positive psychology – to be more effective and deal with challenges better.
Is My Remarkable Year the right program for me?
If you are ready to take control of your wellbeing, self-development and life goals, this journey is designed for YOU.
•You feel there should be more to life…but struggle to finding ways to prioritize what’s most important to YOU
You feel like you are not progressing or moving forward with your life plans, or that the progress is too slow – you could use more accountability or support
• You are tired of juggling your wellbeing and personal goals, feeling like there is never enough of time for everything
• You could use more consistency & clarity in your life goals, including your self-development & learning goals
• You find it hard to prioritize your well-being, especially when life gets busy
• You want to stop drifting and start more proactively designing the life you truly want
• You’re ready to bring both your self-growth and meaningful achievements to the next level – in an easier, more fun way
What do we focus on throughout this year?
Within My Remarkable Year, you will focus on continuous progress throughout the year in three key areas:
1. Self-development: Cultivate habits, learn new skills, and keep growing as a person.
2. Wellbeing: Strengthen your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing and live a more balanced life.
3. Goal achievement: Proactively & consistently progress towards your goals, achieving hard things in a more light & engaging way.
By joining My Remarkable Year, you’ll dive into a engaging and structured program designed to support you in making consistent progress throughout the year – dealing successfully with all the challenges that you encounter on the way.
Would you like to intentionally and thoughtfully design the life you want to live – one step at a time?
Join us at My Remarkable Year if you are looking for these three things:
Transform your life
Create a new path in life (planning a big change or transition), with new clarity, motivation and accountability.
Re-focus and boost your motivation
Want to get back on track of what you wanted out of life (yet somehow got a bit distracted from that path)? This is the place.
Build new levels of clarity
You are unsure about you want out of your life (and which career and life plan to pursue)? Let’s discover together.
Ready to achieve your goals while improving your wellbeing? Join to enjoy a year of growth & progress throughout 2026!
Interested in hearing more from our participants? Discover all testimonials here.
How does it work? What is the structure of the program?
Life Design Workshop (3h long)
The year begins with a Happiness Academy Life Design Workshop (or Life Design Reconnect if you’ve did Life Design already). You will start the year with the clarity your priorities and goals and get a chance to connect and share your plans with the group.
12 monthly progress calls (2h each)
Monthly Zoom calls are designed for consistency, while structured flexibly around group needs. Each call includes a check-in on key life areas—work, play, connections, and adventure—to to see where you’re thriving and where you need to to refocus.
On each call, we first re-focus on your goals. In the second part of the call you will discover practical tools tailored to your current challenges and dilemmas.
Email support & accountability
On 15th each month you will get an email to remind you to reconnect with your goals & that will give you a new science-based method or tool that you can easily apply in your everyday life to get results the fastest way possible.
Each monthly call is designed to help you stay focused on your goals, well-being, and personal growth while offering practical tools to support you in real-time. Here’s how each session unfolds:
• Check-in & reflection:
We begin with a check-in, where you’ll share your progress, challenges, and successes.
We’ll take 20-30 minutes to reflect on four key life areas—work, play, connections, and adventure—focusing on how the past month went and where you want to direct your energy next.
• Actionable insights & group support:
The second part of the call is dedicated to addressing challenges or insights that have surfaced during your reflection. You’ll gain new ideas from group brainstorming, feedback from peers, and guidance from the facilitator, helping you gain fresh perspectives and actionable steps for your goals.
• Practical tools for immediate use:
In each session, you’ll learn science-based tools from positive psychology, designed to support you in a specific challenge that you might be facing this month.
These tools are practical, action-oriented, and diverse—engaging your body, mind, emotions, and senses to create lasting change.
Examples of Tools You’ll Learn:
The tools are always adapted to the current needs & challenges of the group and each of the individuals in the group.
• Self-check-in:
A quick exercise to tune into your needs, energy levels, and emotions—keeping you aligned with your goals.
• Centering:
Simple body-based techniques to regain focus and balance, especially during stressful moments.
• +/-/?:
A reflective tool to quickly evaluate what’s working, what needs improvement, and what new opportunities you might be missing.
• Influence vs. Accept:
A mental framework to help you decide where to invest your energy—focusing on what you can control and letting go of what you can’t.
• Habit building:
Practical steps for strengthening your habits and staying consistent in your personal growth.
• Mindset shifts:
Small, powerful exercises to help you shift your thinking—whether you need to boost focus, calm, creativity, or motivation.
• Short but powerful breathing techniques:
Simple breathwork exercises to regulate emotions and maintain your energy throughout the day.
These tools are not only diverse but also grounded in science, offering immediate, practical applications that will help you create meaningful shifts in both your personal and professional life.
What is expected from you if you join the program?
The only commitment required from you is to be present and active on most of the 2h monthly calls throughout the year, and to attend in a focused, committed way.
In this closely-knit format of group work, it is essential that everyone keeps showing up.
Bring in your full authentic self, as well as readiness to challenge yourself and others in a constructive way.
In return, you will gain huge value in terms of your own consistency with your goals and self-development.
How is My Remarkable Year unique?
Here is what makes My Remarkable unique:
➤ Year-long continuity to build consistent habits and long-term focus makes it light yet impactful
➤ It comes with less intensity and time investment than courses that usually go in weekly calls, focusing on maximal continuity with minimal time investment
➤ It balances between working on your wellbeing, goals and self-development
➤ Flexible structure tailored to the group’s evolving needs is adapted to current focus areas throughout the year
➤ Practical, science-backed tools that spark creativity and break routine thinking, and that are perfectly tailored to your current goals & challenges
➤ A small group of 8 for perfect balance of a lot of time for individual reflection and gaining feedback and ideas from the group
Details and logistics
The program includes:
Life Design Workshop on December 2025 (if you haven’t attended it before)
2h call at the beginning of each month (12 monthly modules) in which you will re-focus, plan your next steps & get new tools and ideas
12 mid-of-the-month emails with short videos – short check-ins to keep you on track throughout the month and to remind you of your plan & share a short tool, exercise, or reflection related to your current challenges
Year-end reflection call – closing call at the end of December to wrap up the whole year
Facilitated, but also peer driven, with a lot of support, ideas and new perspectives from other group members.
My Remarkable Year Fee
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20% discount for Happiness Academy course alumni who finished any of the courses within the last year
• Dates: Monthly zoom calls on the first Tuesday of each month, starting January 2026
• Group Size: Limited to 8 participants to ensure personalized approach
• Fee: €790 (20% discount for Happiness Academy alumni) for the full program
• Time Commitment: 2 hours per month for group calls + optional activities between sessions
Exact dates for 12 monthly Modules – always on the first Tuesday of the month (might still change to Wednesday based on early bird preferences):
➤ December 2024 (Life Design Workshop – optional) – (3h long)
➤ 12 modules of My Remarkable Year 2026:
• January, 2026 – #1
• February, 2026 – #2
• March, 2026 – #3
• April, 2026 – #4
• May, 2026 – #5
• June, 2026 – #6
• July, 2026 – #7
• August, 2026 – #8
• September, 2026 – #9
• October, 2026 – #10
• November, 2026 – #11
• December, 2026 – #12
• Year-end reflection: December 2026
The exact dates for calls might be slightly adjusted based on the preferences of those who confirm early.
Signups are open throughout November 2025, closing at the start of December. The program will be starting in January 2026.
What do the previous participants say?
Here is what previous participants mentioned they likes about Remarkable Year (in their words):
“more consistency with working on my goals, skill development and wellbeing”
“a structured overview of personal goals, wishes and habits one wants to build and how they potentially change, grow and develop through the year”
“more intentionality about how I spend my time”
“a cozy, positive group to share wins and challenges with”
“many new ideas and perspectives from the others in the group, and sense of support with my goals and plans”
“dedicated space for deep reflection, insightful questions, and more clarity”
“a chance to get grounded and motivated each month”
“more flexibility to combine their “big life goals” with current happenings and changes in their life”
“boost to their energy due to great conversations and positive vibe on the calls”
“inspiring group of people that are going through this year long process together – their ideas, perspectives and challenges”
Hear are a couple of more extensive examples of how participants describe the program:
Mirna Šmidt - Your guide on My Remarkable Year
I – Mirna Smidt, the head trainer and founder of Happiness Academy will be your facilitator throughout this journey.
I’ve been a trainer for more than 17 years, focusing on topics of positive psychology (wellbeing, resilience, flow, mindset) and train-the-trainer skills for other trainers.
I’m also a coach, NLP Master Practitioner, and hold an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology. Learning and meaningful conversations are my passions, and I’m here to help you thrive.
Outside of training, I love getting lost in a good book, going on adventures, and spending time in nature – being its outdoor sports, enjoying the sea, or hanging out with horses.
If we haven’t met yet, you can have a peak on Happiness Academy website, www.mirnasmidt.com or on Linkedin (I do love connecting – so definitely find me there!).
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
If you cannot join, I will send you a short guidance (video, handout or email) to check-in with you for that month.
My Remarkable Year program is designed to allow you maximum consistency and progress in the area of your wellbeing, goals and self-development, with minimal time investment. That means that the only thing that you are expected to attend is monthly calls: 1 call of 2h each month.
Having said that, you will also be provided with mid-month reflection questions and video between calls and are invited to take 20-30min to go through this mid-month check-in in order to strengthen your focus and consistency – but this is fully optional!
You will also have a buddy assigned, to support your accountability. It’s recommended to connect with your buddy on a 30 min – 1h call each month to deepen your reflections, but this is also fully optional and based on your agreement with your buddy regarding what works best for the two of you.
Throughout 2026, you’ll build real momentum—not just hitting your goals but also gaining consistency in your personal growth. Previous participants often mention feeling more in control, energized, and focused.
It’s not about making drastic changes overnight, but about building steady, lasting progress over the year.
This program runs only once per year, so the next time it will be available is when signups for 2026 open.
If waiting for another year could mean another year of feeling stuck or missing out on real progress – please don’t waste that time, especially since you could already start building so many amazing things.
It‘s up to you if you want to go through it again.
If you attended it several years ago, it might be a good idea, but if it was less than 2 years ago and you didn’t have any significant changes in your life, you can use your previous life plan and we will update it together on the first call so it’s focused on the current year.
We will seek to offer you another date. If that is not possible, you will receive a prerecorded version with on-demand videos, full duration 3h, which you will be required to finish before our first call in January.
Then you shouldn’t join. But do ask yourself, is that truly so? The pricing of the program is designed in a way to keep it affordable and way cheaper than the value it provides, and if needed, I am happy to offer payment in 2 installments.
The key questions is: where do you want to be a year from now, and how much is that progress worth to you?
Investing in My Remarkable Year isn’t just about this year—it’s about building habits, clarity, and progress that will impact you long after 2026.
Once you invest into the program, a refund is not possible, and I would like to invite you to join the program only if you are 100% ready to commit in terms of attending the calls and working on your goals.
Your commitment and active participation also have a big impact on others in the group, to support them with their own accountabilities and share the struggles and successes, which is why it is important to me that you participate in this journey in a committed way from beginning to end.
Do you still have questions left?
You can get in touch via signup or contact form and let us know!
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