Asana Community Countdown to the New Year: Journey to 2026 🥠

[Vanessa_N]

Hi everyone!

The air is shifting and the cookies are whispering. Today we officially kick off our annual Countdown to the New Year!

This year features the theme Journey to 2026. It offers a month of reflections, lessons, and small sparks of wisdom to carry with you into the year ahead.

The calendar will reveal itself one day at a time. Click the tile for the date and you will unlock that day’s post. Some posts hide surprises while others hide stories. The December 1st post is already live for you!

Wait, before you explore the map…

To bring even more fun to this year’s Countdown, we are adding a brand new Scavenger Hunt game.

You will find the full instructions at the bottom of this post, right after our fortune map. I know, the map is beautiful and very tempting to click, but make sure you scroll down and check the game rules before you dive in. You do not want to miss this end of year fun.

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Introducing the Countdown Scavenger Hunt

Many Countdown posts this year will include a lighthearted fortune cookie message. Seven of those fortunes will appear in our Asana Phoenix color. These special messages are your Phoenix Fortunes to collect!

To get you started, here is your very first Phoenix Fortune:

Something promising is beginning. Let it guide your next step

Please collect all seven Phoenix Fortunes as they appear. Scribble them down, save screenshots, or hide them in your sock drawer. Do whatever keeps them safe until the end!

And yes, the fortune we shared above counts as the first one. Please make sure it is on your list!

The final post of the series will include a form where you can submit your full set. Anyone who submits all seven correctly will be entered into a prize draw to win a little something from the Community team.

More details will land at the end of the month.

May your scavenger skills be sharp!

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Stay in the Loop

To make sure you don’t miss any Countdown posts, you can follow this category so new entries appear at the top of your activity feed the moment they go live.

We are excited to take this journey with you!

[Merian_Mortera]

Hi Asana Forum,

Just to understand correctly, I will be getting emails with the fortune cookies? Or will they be shared somewhere else that I will need to follow? Thank you!

[lpb]

@Merian_Mortera,

Go to Countdown to the New Year and then click this button near the top right, then you’ll get notified with each new addition:

Thanks,

Larry

[Merian_Mortera]

Thank you @lpb !

[Vanessa_N]

Hi @lpb and @Merian_Mortera, sorry about that. The link was missing from my post. Each day a new tile will unlock on the map above, but the actual daily posts will land in the Countdown to the New Year category. If you follow it, you will be notified whenever a new post goes live

[Jenna_Nicoloff]

Anyone else not able to access Dec 17th’s post…

[Jeremy_Long]

Hi @Jenna_Nicoloff,

The link from the calendar doesn’t appear to be working, but you can find the post here: https://forum.asana.com/t/asanas-secret-shortcut-guide/1110390/3

[Jan-Rienk]

@Forum-team can you fix the link?

[Emily_Roman]

Good catch @Jeremy_Long! There was a ) at the end of the URL. If you could see the codes behind the image, omg It’s fixed now!

[Stephanie_King1]

is the form still open to submit fortunes

[Kim_S]

I’m wondering the same thing. I’m not sure where to submit them?

[Leslie_Gibson]

Can someone explain where the form is? I’ve checked all the tiles and seem to have missed it.

[lpb]

The initial instructions say this about the form:

@Vanessa_N

The final post of the series will include a form where you can submit your full set. Anyone who submits all seven correctly will be entered into a prize draw to win a little something from the Community team.

Thanks,

Larry

[Kim_S]

I think the issue is that there’s no form or link to a form.

[lpb]

It may be that we’re awaiting the final post(s) still.

[Debbi_Bewley]

I have looked through all posts again and I only have 5 that were the Phoenix color. Can’t find the missing two.

[Kim_S]

I found six. Cannot find the seventh! I went through all the posts twice.

[Valerie_Stimac]

I too only found 5 fortunes in the phoenix color… Would love some support here!

[Vanessa_N]

Hi everyone! Happy New Year, and apologies for any confusion.

Here’s some clarification:

The Countdown posts from our guests officially ended on Dec 31, but there’s still a Countdown to the New Year wrap-up from the Community team coming soon! This post will go live in the same category, Countdown to the New Year, so anyone following it will get notified. The wrap-up post will include the form link to submit your answers and the official Scavenger Hunt terms & conditions.

Since a lot of Forum members were out of office last week due to the holidays, we held off a bit to give everyone extra time to catch up on all the latest Countdown posts.

And about the 7 Phoenix Fortunes: Two of them didn’t show up in the correct Phoenix color due to a technical hiccup. The issue is fixed now, so if you’re scanning them today, everything will appear correctly.

As friendly sorry from our team to anyone who missed them while hunting because of the hiccup… Here are the two posts with the missing Phoenix Fortunes so you don’t have to hunt for them again:

• Dec 12: From inbox chaos to one simple Asana form: our central ticketing system
• Dec 30: Shifting from problems to progress: a hospitality lesson that followed me into Asana

All the other 5 Phoenix Fortunes are correct and easy to find. And just in case you missed it, the first one was shared in the kickoff post above

Thanks for your understanding, and keep an eye out for the wrap-up from our team! Any other questions, let us know

[Valerie_Stimac]

@Vanessa_N

who missed them while hunting because of the hiccup… Here are the two posts with the missing Phoenix Fortunes so you don’t have to hunt for them again:

Thank you so much for helping make this easy for those of us who were diligently following along!