A seven-step framework for planning your year: start with lifestyle and family goals, define your life mission, pick five major moves, break them into quarterly targets, nurture key relationships, clarify what financial success means to you, and choose three areas for skill growth.
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Then the next 7 are planning the next year. Number 1, the thing that people don't think about in planning the next year are lifestyle objectives. We typically think about our business objectives. For you, you know, it might be like, oh, I want to get this, like, perfect job on the planet. It's like, I get that, but what are your lifestyle objectives? Things with your family, your wife, and stuff like that. People don't put those In the bank first, you know, in this first. So that's a good thing to start with. Second one, what's your life mission? Third one, what are your 5 significant moves you're going to make in the following year, in 2026 for us this year? Then breaking those into quarterly objectives, and we'll get into how to do that. Number 5 is relationships that you're going to build or grow, nurture. Number 6 is financial success. Always got to have that piece in there, like, what does financial success look like? And then number 7, 3 major areas to improve mastery next year. So where— what are you going to learn? What are areas you need to learn something about?