How To Make 2026 The Best Year Of Your Life (Step By Step)

I got stuck in that loop of failing almost every single goal that I set for myself for years. There's a reason that only 8% of people actually keep their New Year's resolutions. It's because they're setting random goals instead of actually using systems. So if that's you, I want to show you some systems that I just straight up stole from a bunch of people. And I've achieved literally almost every single goal since I started using this. So if that's you, please watch this. I'm at the end of this video. If you actually follow this stuff, you will hit your next goal. It's like almost you won't be able to help it. I know this seems like a big claim, but I didn't make this stuff up. It's just like science. It works. Like I look at the last page of my goals that I set last year, and I hit every single one of them, which is super cool. Of course, I only have three goals, but hit them. First thing to do is don't set a goal yet, okay? Hold on. Let me get my red book. Like I said, I just stole this from a bunch of people who are much smarter than me. We want to start off with a version of Dreamlining, which I stole from the four-hour work week. So if you're thinking about some goals, instead of asking yourself, what are my goals? What do I want to have? Ask yourself, what would excite you? So instead of having this goal of like, oh, I want to be a millionaire. Well, why do you want to be a millionaire? Like you don't want to just have a nicer house and a nicer car, and then technically you're a millionaire, or you have a bunch of stocks somewhere, and technically you're a millionaire, but it doesn't change your life at all, right? Like what would be the point of that? That's stupid. So what is it that you actually want out of that? What are the activities that you want to do? Actually, take some time and think this out. Maybe you want to travel. You want to live in Bali for three months. Wouldn't that be epic? Well, that would be like an incredibly easy goal that almost every person could hit within a year. Probably you can be able to just travel the world full-time within a year if you use some of these systems. But what are the things that you want to do? Then you want to pick a timeline, either a six-month or a 12-month. What were some things that you would like to have, you would like to be by that time? Do you want to be a great chef? Well, we're going to break that down a little bit, and that might mean cooking Christmas dinner. Do you want a new car? Do you want to travel? Do you want to go to some country? And the goal here is to create something that is actually exciting enough to give you some motivation to do it. You don't want to pick something too easy. You want to pick something that's like, yeah, it's a reason to get out of bed in the morning, right? If you're having problems coming up with what that would be for you, just take some time and think about what would your ideal circumstances not look like? This would be kind of like fear-setting. What would be something that would just be terrible? For me, this is a huge, huge motivator, and I love to have these whys tied behind all of my goals. This is my sheet from doing this a little bit ago. But a couple of my whys are having time with my kids to never have to worry about ever missing a game ever. That's a strong motivator for me to do hard things. Another one is this pain, this fear of being in the same place looking six months from now. If I'm doing the exact same thing I'm doing now, maybe for you, if you're stuck at the same job that you hate in a relationship that you're not happy with, you're not in shape, you're not excited about life, you're just dreading every single day, and you do nothing different for the next six months, it is going to be the same or worse, guaranteed. If that doesn't scare you, then I don't know, it scares me a lot. And so you need to find some of these things of either the dream that you would like or the pain of staying where you are. And if you don't have either of those, the rest of this video and goal-setting thing is just not going to work because you need to have a reason to make real change in your life, whether it's the fear or the reward. So that is going to be your why. Then I like to pick three big, unrealistic goals. I'm actually going to pop out a new journal for this because I'm actually doing this myself right now. I use this thing, it's called a finisher's journal. I think I'm on my 15th one of these. I used it every day for the past three or four years. You can use a piece of paper, anything you want, but like this is the exact system kind of taken from some of these places that I took it from like the 12-week year and stuff. And by doing this kind of system, whether you use a journal or not, like I've literally gotten more done in 12 weeks than I have in an entire year and really made a lot of progress because I use this system. You want to clearly define some of those outcome goals. So for instance, if you wanted to travel for three months in Bali, well, you can actually break down what that would look like in order to get there, right? You could say, okay, well, to do that, I either need to work remotely or I need to have enough money to do that and then come back and get a job, right? Okay, well, how much money do you need? Well, to live in Bali, it's roughly $1,000 a month, pretty cheap overall. So you only need about $3,000 to do that plus flights and all that type of stuff, let's say $4,000. Okay, so now if you can earn $1,500 a month, you could just leave and never come back. Okay, how do you earn $1,500 a month online from a laptop? Not that hard at all. I've done it twice in the past year starting new YouTube channels and that's just like the one thing that I know personally and there's like a bunch of ways to do that, right? So it's not incredibly hard to set your dream, crazy, unrealistic goal. If you break it down into smaller and smaller and smaller steps, it's like crazy to think that you wouldn't have it if you actually focused on it every single day. You did real action every single day for 90 days for six months. It's insane to think that you wouldn't make progress. You literally can't help but do it with this. I don't know, I'm really passionate about this. It's really helped me. So in this journal, there's gonna be three outcome goals right on the top here and then we're gonna have action steps underneath it. Again, you can just use a piece of paper, that's totally fine but I'm gonna choose one goal that I wanna accomplish within the next 90 days. I'm gonna do health, wealth and purpose for my three criterias. Yours might be different but those are things that I really wanna focus on right now and I just wanna have one thing to focus on towards each one of those because if I have three things on wealth and nothing on the rest, then most likely I'm gonna suffer in those areas and I wanna find a little bit of balance while still making a lot of progress towards things that would actually excite me. So one of my goals for last year was to post two videos a week and I ended up doing that on two separate channels but this year, I would like to post two videos a week on this channel so I can get to a million subscribers because I think that would be really cool. So I need 285,000 subscribers this year, divide that by four. So I need 71,000 subscribers in the next 90 days, please help me. And so in the past 90 days, I have gained 30,000 subscribers but I've only posted pretty much once a week. So ideally, there'd be some compound effects and if I post twice a week, we would be on the correct schedule to get to the goal. So breaking that down, I need to do twice a week and then I can set daily goals after that and then if I just post twice a week, ideally, I would be at a million subscribers by the end of the year and so I can have something that would be really cool that would excite me because it seems unrealistic and kind of crazy but now by doing that, I know the action steps in order to get there and because of other systems that I run, this should technically only take about 10 hours a week because each video takes about five hours so 10 hours a week should be able to get to a million subscribers by the end of the year and still hit all my other goals that I want to hit, which is super cool. So I'll just write all this down. Another cool thing they have in this journal is like habit tracker. So if there's one habit that you really want to stick to, I generally like to just pick one habit that I work on for roughly 90 days because it's hard for me to set multiple habits at the same time. So just one habit can really work and then you can just kind of keep track of it here or wherever else you can make your own boxes but it seems like a pain. By the way, I have actually started working with finishers because I've been using them for so long. So there's like an exclusive discount down below and also helps support the channel and saves you money and literally changed my life and quite a few other people have used this and said that it's really helped them. So if a tool like this can actually help you change your life for the price of going out to dinner, it's insane not to try it, you know? Or just use a piece of paper but like anytime you can invest a little bit of money to literally change your life, crazy not to do it. It's the best investment you can make is into yourself and into your brain and into, you know, your happiness like that. So now that we have all that, I'm gonna go into weekly plans, right? Because now we have the overall goal that we're trying to go to. By the end of the year, we want a million subscribers. To break that down, 90 days, we need 71K which means we need to post twice a week. In order to get there, you can do the same thing with anything else. This means if you want to have abs by the end of the year, how much weight do you have to lose? Okay, how many calories do you need to do in order to lose that? How much do you need to lose at a time? How many times would you go to the gym each week in order to get to the body that you want by the end of the year? If you follow all those, it's stupid to think that you wouldn't be in way better shape. And this is just reverse engineering and then 15 minutes a day. Tiny steps in order to get there. Next up here, we have your main priority. This is each week should have one thing that if you get this done, you will feel like your week is a success. For me, posting two videos. If it was a fitness goal, it's going to the gym three times in a week. If I get that done, my week will be a success or the amount of calories or whatever. And then we have some secondary tasks where if these get done, that's awesome, but they don't need to get done as much as the main thing needs to get done to get you to where you want to go to. And so a lot of people have multiple priorities and I can just say like priorities didn't exist as a word until recently. Like you have one priority. The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing. If you have multiple main things, they're no longer the main thing. That make any sense to anybody? I think it did. So each week, make a plan on how you're going to get one step closer to that. We're doing this in 90 day segments for a reason because it's short enough that you can make a decent amount of progress, but it's not so long that you can be like, oh, I got to get there by the end of the year, but I'll just work really hard later. You need to break down the steps from the year into the 90s and then the 90s into the weeks and then the weeks into days. And then the days just stack on each other and then you stack the weeks. And now like a month from now, you're like, man, I got a lot done in the past month just by doing this like 15 minutes a day type thing. So anyways, I write out my one week plan of exactly what I want to get done that I just talked about. And then I'll break that into daily, where again, I'm going to have one primary task and have some secondary tasks and then some other stuff that I need to get done ideally. But I'm not tracking absolutely everything I ever have to get done because you could have a lot more stuff. This is the stuff that if I get them done, my life gets marketably better and I get closer to dream life. And this is literally how I was able to leave my job at 24, how I was able to get this beautiful house and chickens and have time with my family and have my wife not have to work, be able to travel as much as I want to. It is because of small things done consistently towards a very specific goal. And it wasn't like overnight, it took like three years or five years of doing this exact system over and over every single day. But if you stack real progress towards real goals every day, like crazy crap starts happening. You could go as hard as you want for the next month, nothing's going to happen. If you do that for two years, I don't know. So while all this is good, there's a couple more things that you want to do besides just the tracking here. But also you want to surround yourself with like-minded people. You want to really curate your inputs because that is going to change everything. If you want to get in shape for the next 90 days, if one of your goals is, you know, lose 20 pounds or whatever, you need to watch YouTubers who are talking about how to lose weight, right? You need to read books about that. You need to have friends who are into that type of thing, who are encouraging you on your journey and not like saying, hey, let's go grab pizza. If you surround yourself by people who this is normal for them to better themselves in this way, if all the content you consume is like motivating you and encouraging you to get that, giving you the knowledge, the steps that you need to do that, you're way more likely to make that happen, right? Same thing with finances. You want to change your finances drastically, read the four-hour work week, watch my channel, watch other people's channels, listen to podcasts. If you surround yourself with inputs of all people on the same journey, you see like that person got freedom, that person got freedom, that person built a 10K a month business, that person did this, that person did that, and that, and you're like, oh, why can't I do that? All those normal, totally random people did that. Even this like right here, it looks professional. I just want to show you something, okay? This is my room right now. I'm just a very normal person. My daughter has a blanket here that's stretching out. It's also helping with noise. I got this new 2026 calendar that I haven't gotten to put up on the wall yet. These are all my papers and notes all over the place here. Like I'm not some like robot. I'm just a normal human being. Every other person that you meet, that you look up to, that whatever, they're all normal people. Like why couldn't it be you? It's literally the only difference between them and you is they took actionable steps towards a very specific outcome for a long period of time. That's literally all successes. It's just like, don't give up. Pick something unreasonable. Shoot for it for five years. Don't give up. Take steps every single day to get there. That's all successes. Another thing that I am doing personally, and I really suggest that you experiment with it as well if you're not happy where you are in your life right now, is cutting out social media, especially short form content. I have realized that it's the number one hindrance towards me hitting any goal that I want to hit is short form content. It kind of gives you this false sense of dopamine. Each short that you watch is like an emotion, right? It can be positive, negative, interest. It's going to be motivational, whatever it is. But mostly you won't remember a single short that you watched or Instagram Reel or TikTok, even if you just watched like 50 of them. And when you need dopamine, you can get it in a few seconds by doing that as opposed to having to work for it by going to the gym, by making a successful offer, by making a YouTube video, whatever it is. You have to work in order to get that dopamine as opposed to just instantly getting it. And then you also are training yourself not to have the regular emotions that we're meant to have. And so if you are unhappy with your life, you keep trying to reset and you can't do it, curate the inputs to positive things and shut out the negative and also short form stuff. This is, again, everybody's different. But for me personally, there's been very few seasons where I've consumed a decent amount of short form content and I've been successful in any goal that I'm chasing. It's a very strong correlation for me and most people. In fact, when I was at my peak of making a lot of success, leaving my day job at 24, all that type of stuff, I cut out all social media whatsoever. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram. TikTok wasn't around back then. But like all of that, I cut out video games, I cut out TV, I cut out everything besides podcasts and audiobooks. That was all I did. And three or four years of doing that literally was all it took for me to have freedom for the rest of my life. Taking all the noise away, focusing all my energy on important things, life totally changed. So like if there's one thing that you're doing that like if I just stop doing this one thing, I know my life would be better. Something that you know you should do, but you're not doing for some reason. If you cut that thing out and it's probably your phone, that will make the likelihood of you having your dream life, the things that will make you happy, the stuff that like, wouldn't it be cool if I could travel, if I could be home with my kids, if I had a job that I could work for my laptop, if I was a successful YouTuber, whatever it is. If I was the best chef, if my house was totally clean, whatever that is, right? The main thing, if you really want that, you need to figure out what the cost is. Every outcome that you want is going to have a cost. If you want to be great at pickleball, it's going to take 100 hours, whatever it is. There's a dedicated amount of work that goes into getting you to that place where you want to be. If you want to be a successful YouTuber, it's probably going to take 50 videos. That is the time that it's going to take for you to learn the skills. If you want to become good at piano, you're going to need to practice this song 40 times. If you want to be anything that you want, will have a cost. And if you're not willing to pay the cost, stop complaining about not having the thing. Everything just has a cost in life. It has a cost of focus, a cost of I stopped watching Instagram and I took two hours a day and I started making content instead. And that was the cost shifting from input to output for a long time, for years. And now I don't know what's going on with the Kardashians, but I now have this business. That is the cost. Everything's going to have a cost and different things have different costs. The cost of making 10K a month is very different than the cost of making 100K a month is very different than the cost of making a million a month. And I literally know people who have done all of those. And generally, it's like less and less of a cost as you go up. But the threshold to get from like zero to one is really, really hard for a lot of people. And so that's where you have to realize, like, am I willing to put in the work to get these things that would make my life the dream life that I want? And if not, just like be OK with being wherever you're at right now. It's OK. But if you want to be in the top 1%, you want to have abs, a great home and, you know, have your partner, not have to worry about money, be able to pay off your parents' mortgage and travel the world. You can have all of those things, but not if you don't do all the actions for multiple years that it would take in order to get there. So count the cost and just ask if you're willing to pay what it would take to get there. And if not, just like forget about the goals, scrap it, whatever. But like you're not just going to magically have abs. You have to diet and exercise. And so those are the costs to get the abs. So do you really want abs? Because if you're not willing to diet and exercise, you don't really want the abs, right? It's not exciting enough. I don't know. I feel like I'm kind of getting off the rails here. But that's my exact plan that has changed my life. Hopefully it can change yours. If YouTube's one of the things that you want to do, I know it's one of the top jobs that younger people are interested in these days. I have built two brand new channels in the past two years that would cover my entire lifestyle from scratch because of other proven methods. And that is something that I teach in the 5-Hour YouTuber currently closed. But I'm going to be doing another cohort in a couple of months. So if you want to join the wait list, we do have limited spots in there. And much like this stuff, it's all like proven systems. It's not guesswork. It's not like wishing to do stuff. It's like picking what you want, actual steps to get there, and then more or less proven results. So again, if you're interested in joining that, there's a wait list down below. If you want to change your life for just a couple bucks, check out a journal. I love these things. And thanks for watching.