How to Make 2026 the Best Year: 6 Questions to Ask Yourself

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Dec 15, 2025

Want to make 2026 your best year? Discover six transformative questions to find clarity and direction for your goals. Reflect on your past year's highlights and low points to gain valuable insights. Use your camera roll to emphasize what you love and plan new habits. Mel shares a strategic Stop, Start, Continue framework to optimize your time. Plus, she unveils her new venture, Pure Genius, aimed at boosting your protein intake. Get ready to write down your goals and turn your vision into reality!

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INSIGHT

Write To Bond With Your Future Self

Writing to your future self strengthens your bond with that future person and changes behavior.
Small reflective writing makes you act more intentionally today.

INSIGHT

Personal Meaning Fuels Motivation

Goals become motivating when they connect to personal meaning discovered in last year's data.
Intrinsic motivation from that connection makes you more likely to follow through.

ANECDOTE

Mel's Burnout Wake-Up Call

Mel shares a personal low: getting so sick in January she missed events and ran herself into the ground.
She notes travel and nonstop work left her exhausted and neglectful of consistent strength training and nutrition.

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Do you want to make 2026 your best year yet?

An amazing year doesn’t happen by chance. It happens by choice. And there are only 6 questions to ask yourself for instant clarity and insight. Your answers will show you what the very next steps are in your life.

The brand new companion workbook to this episode can be found at melrobbins.com/bestyear.

In this episode, Mel walks you through her empowering, research-backed, year-end ritual designed to set you up for success. By the end, you’ll know exactly where to steer your energy to make next year your best yet.

She will cover:

-The powerful year-end ritual she has used for the past 22 years

-The simple question to ask yourself to know what you really want

-Why doing this every single year is the key to her own success - and how if you've done this process in the past, you can take it up a notch this year

-How to use your camera roll to highlight your year

-The one best step you should take after listening to this episode

-Her own reflections on the year and the goals she is setting.

This episode comes with a 20-page companion workbook. This brand new workbook is designed to help you get clear about what you want and empower you to take the next step forward in your life.

And the cool part? It takes less than a minute for you to get your hands on it.

Just sign up at melrobbins.com/bestyear.

To learn more about Pure Genius, which Mel mentioned in today’s episode, click here to get on the waitlist.

For more resources related to today’s episode, click here for the podcast episode page.

If you liked the episode, check out this one next: How to Reinvent Your Life Starting Today

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