If your goal is to stumble through 2026, burn out early, and frustrate everyone around you, good news. I have a practical guide for a terrible year. Follow these three proven steps to experience your worst year yet!
1. Set Zero Clear Goals
While others waste their time on new year’s resolutions, don’t even bother. Don’t set goals. Don’t define what you want. Don’t decide who you want to become. And definitely don’t write anything down. The more vague you are, the easier it is for the year to slip away without you noticing.
Let your days run you instead of you running your days. Wake up with no direction and hope things magically fall into place. Don’t plan. Avoid priorities. Live without structure. When people ask what you are working toward, give the most unclear answer possible. That way no one, including you, knows whether you’re moving forward or just going in circles.
A lack of clear goals is the perfect way to look back at the end of the year wondering where the time went and why nothing changed.
2. Follow Your Feelings
Forget emotional intelligence and discipline. Follow your feelings. Wait until you feel it before you do it. So if you don’t feel like it, just skip it. Forget routines, schedules, or any consistent habits that could help you get better this year.
I can guarantee that if you follow your feelings, in only a few months you’ll have a pile of unfinished projects, unmet goals, and the perfect excuse: “I just didn’t feel like it.” You will be proud to know that your feelings helped you accomplish nothing this year.
3. Avoid Support or Accountability
This may be the most important step. Make sure you navigate this new year alone. Be aware, there will be people who will try to challenge you, encourage you, and hold you accountable. But whatever you do, refuse help, coaching, or advice. Ignore friends, mentors, or anyone else who might challenge you or offer to help you grow.
Growth almost always happens in community, but failure thrives in isolation. So close the doors of your life and live in isolation. By doing everything alone, you’re guaranteed a year of repeated mistakes, missed opportunities, and the perfectly frustrating feeling of wondering why nothing ever changes. Is there a better way to ruin a new year?
I realize some of you may be rejecting my advice, and that’s ok. If you want to have a year of growth, productivity, and success, that’s your decision. So if you’re going to be stubborn and make 2026 your best year yet, just do the opposite of what is stated above and you’ll do just fine.
Here’s to whoever you choose to become in 2026!
1. Set Zero Clear Goals
While others waste their time on new year’s resolutions, don’t even bother. Don’t set goals. Don’t define what you want. Don’t decide who you want to become. And definitely don’t write anything down. The more vague you are, the easier it is for the year to slip away without you noticing.
Let your days run you instead of you running your days. Wake up with no direction and hope things magically fall into place. Don’t plan. Avoid priorities. Live without structure. When people ask what you are working toward, give the most unclear answer possible. That way no one, including you, knows whether you’re moving forward or just going in circles.
A lack of clear goals is the perfect way to look back at the end of the year wondering where the time went and why nothing changed.
2. Follow Your Feelings
Forget emotional intelligence and discipline. Follow your feelings. Wait until you feel it before you do it. So if you don’t feel like it, just skip it. Forget routines, schedules, or any consistent habits that could help you get better this year.
I can guarantee that if you follow your feelings, in only a few months you’ll have a pile of unfinished projects, unmet goals, and the perfect excuse: “I just didn’t feel like it.” You will be proud to know that your feelings helped you accomplish nothing this year.
3. Avoid Support or Accountability
This may be the most important step. Make sure you navigate this new year alone. Be aware, there will be people who will try to challenge you, encourage you, and hold you accountable. But whatever you do, refuse help, coaching, or advice. Ignore friends, mentors, or anyone else who might challenge you or offer to help you grow.
Growth almost always happens in community, but failure thrives in isolation. So close the doors of your life and live in isolation. By doing everything alone, you’re guaranteed a year of repeated mistakes, missed opportunities, and the perfectly frustrating feeling of wondering why nothing ever changes. Is there a better way to ruin a new year?
I realize some of you may be rejecting my advice, and that’s ok. If you want to have a year of growth, productivity, and success, that’s your decision. So if you’re going to be stubborn and make 2026 your best year yet, just do the opposite of what is stated above and you’ll do just fine.
Here’s to whoever you choose to become in 2026!