What 2025 taught me about money, spaciousness, and thinking bigger
As 2025 comes to a close, I've been sitting with the lessons this year brought me.
Not the business metrics. The actual lessons -- the ones that shifted how I work, how I relate to money, and what I now believe is possible. Here are the top three.
Lesson #1: Your business exists to support your life, not consume it.
A client in my Advanced Prosperity Program set a goal that stopped me in my tracks: fitting business into life.
Her words landed hard, because I realized I hadn't been living that way myself. I was sending emails before 5:30am. Starting dinner at 9pm. Always doing "just one more thing" before I could rest.
So I made some new rules: laptop closed by 7pm, non-negotiable friend time, and no more treating non-business time as unproductive. It's okay -- more than okay -- to enjoy your life. The business supports the life. Not the other way around.
The author, photo by Sharron Lou.
Lesson #2: Spaciousness isn't lazy. It's where prosperity lives.
This one is counterintuitive, so stay with me.
I'd been running on my to-do list, my calendar, my commitments. Every gap filled before it could breathe. So I started saying no to misaligned meetings, creating real boundaries, and prioritizing spaciousness -- even when it felt uncomfortable.
More guidance followed. More blessings. Audacious thinking, made possible by that spaciousness, led to something I'm incredibly grateful for: I became a TEDx speaker in 2025.
I often tell my clients: the universe loves a gap. When you create spaciousness, you create room to receive. If you're full -- overworked, fearful, or gripping tightly -- there's no opening for anything new to arrive.
And here's what surprised me: even when my schedule looks packed now, something shifts and I gain time back. That's the counterintuitive nature of time prosperity. Put it to the test and see what happens for you.
Lesson #3: Incremental thinking limits extraordinary results.
Energy follows thought. When you think incrementally, you get incremental results. When you think expansively, you get expansive results.
If your next revenue goal is close to where you already are, you may be imposing your own ceiling without realizing it. But when you think 100 times bigger -- not 10 times -- something shifts. New neural pathways form. What felt unrealistic starts to feel possible.
I decided to reach for something audacious this year, without fixating on the how. I just let myself feel into truly expansive possibilities. A few weeks later, I had an experience that shifted everything about how I see the world and my place in it. A mystical experience. One I can't fully explain -- only receive.
And it was only possible because of the spaciousness from Lesson #2, which was only possible because I'd reclaimed my time through Lesson #1.
Each lesson was a breadcrumb to the next. That's how transformation works -- the path reveals itself one step at a time, if you're willing to keep showing up and stay curious about what's yours to learn.
So if you feel stuck right now, what if it's not a problem? What if it's an invitation?
What if the answer isn't working harder, but creating more space?
And what if thinking bigger doesn't require knowing the how -- only the willingness to receive the guidance when it comes?
If you're ready to break these patterns and transform your relationship with prosperity, Pathway to Prosperity creates space for exactly these types of breakthroughs. Our next cohort begins in March 2026.
About the author:
Marte Siebenhar is The Business Healer. She helps purpose-driven leaders and small business owners transform their relationship with abundance using mindset and energy work. Her signature Pathway to Prosperity program combines practical business strategy with energetic transformation. Learn more about the program here.
