Forget New Year's resolutions, this is Team Cosmo’s official f**k it list

At Cosmo India, we are officially entering 2026 with zero pressure and zero performative optimism. No resolutions, no reinventions, no unrealistic glow-ups. We are not listing the things we hope to do; we are listing everything we’ve done, everything we’re dropping, and everything we’re unapologetically saying f**k it to. This is the energy we are carrying into the New Year, and we hope you use it as permission to release the habits, expectations, people, and pressures that never deserved space in your life to begin with.

So before the calendar flips, join us in letting a few things burn. And if you need some inspiration, here's what Team Cosmo is saying f**k it to in 2026.

Saving outfits for “special occasions”. Just wear it—you bought it for a reason.

Treating work like it’s the most important thing in your life—or using it to escape a bland reality. 

Covering up for incompetent people just because you are a perfectionist. 

Giving a damn about people looking at you when you step out wearing that risqué outfit that was rotting in your closet. 

Feeling guilty about taking a break just because you don't feel like it. Just take a break, you deserve it. 

Making excuses for someone's bad behaviour just because they’re your best friend, family, or someone you care about.

Letting people treat you as less than because you don’t fit their version of who you should be.

Putting everyone else first—even if it's family. Your needs matter too, and sacrificing opportunities to be with them will only breed resentment later.

Staying silent when you’re disrespected. Smile and ignore it once, and you’re teaching people it’s okay to do that. Respect is a two-way street, regardless of age, title, or relationship.

Romanticising people who consistently disappoint you.

Waiting for the “right time” to say what you actually feel. 

Texting your ex back just because you’re bored.

Acting like bare-minimum effort from people is “good enough.”

Compromising on things that are important to you in the name of love. 

Talking negatively about those who have done you wrong- it’s taking you nowhere!

Stop being everyone’s therapist! 

Giving everyone unlimited access to my efforts—I'm choosing to guard my energy instead. 

Saying “yes” out of panic and covering it up as being nice.

Saying “Sure!” when I mean “Absolutely not”. 

Going above and beyond in relationships that would collapse without my effort.

Doing a full mental pros-and-cons list before saying no.

Acting like everything does not happen for a reason.

No more staying in a place where you are not respected or valued, whether it’s a friendship, a relationship, or a workplace.

Stop feeling guilty for not working just because you didn’t feel like it. No reason to burn yourself out. 

I’m done entertaining and conforming to society’s idea of a “good girl.” I’ll be (and encourage women to be) loud, unfiltered, feral, fully in my feminine, and absolutely free.

If 2025 was about holding it together, 2026 can be about letting it go, and doing so loudly. A “Fuck it list” is not chaos for the sake of chaos; it is clarity. It is choosing peace over performance, boundaries over burnout, honesty over emotional admin, pleasure over guilt, and self-respect over approval.

So throw out the rulebook, stop waiting for permission, quit negotiating with bare-minimum energy, and start treating your life like it belongs to you—because it does. 2026 is the year of decline, delete, block, unsubscribe, and walk away.

Consider this your sign to stop carrying what was never yours to hold. Let it drop. Let it go. And step into the year lighter, louder, and entirely unbothered.

We wish you the merriest Christmas and the happiest New Year!

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