Tag: 2026

Superior intelligence is designing the kind of life you want to live.

Hope is ‘big picture’ thinking and dreaming.

Thinking big picture (hope), compounded over time, has the magic of doubling the size of your dreams and goals. This doubling effect is brought about by the magic of compound interest hope.

Over the decades, my personal vibrancy growth-curve reveals a slow and steady incline. The doubling happens when a good design becomes a very good design. And then that very good design – through tweaking and experimentation – becomes an excellent design.

Excellence is always the goal.

Excellence is always the ‘hope’.

Somewhere in my formative years, a seed sprouted. The seed was personal vibrancy. It would be decades before ‘personal vibrancy’ entered my consciousness, and, my daily vocabulary.

Reprise: Superior intelligence is designing the kind of life you want to live.

And here we are, 2026, closer to 70 than to 60.

As you live your ‘life by design’:

1. Have fun
2. .think .differently
3. Lean into discomfort.

Discomfort is simply creativity and innovation.

New.

Better.

And of course, potentially risky.

Your original design and your design-tweaks may not work as you intend.

What a great opportunity.

What a fabulous challenge.

This is the beauty of growth-mindset:

1. Launch a design idea.
2. Enjoy where it takes you.
3. Learn from it.
4. Revise/improve on it
5. Repeat.

Ps. Happy present moment.

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Discipline comes from focus.

Focus comes from motivation.

Motivation comes from goals.

Goals come from dreaming.

Dreams come from hope.

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Hope is a great strategy but a poor tactic.

i “hope” to watch many sunsets.

But hope doesn’t create the daily habit to have watching today’s sunset on my mind.

Goals and hope are synonymous.

So using this synonym, having a goal is a great strategy, but a poor tactic.

Going to the gym is a great strategy to increase my fitness, but useless without tactical habits: scheduling the gym, traveling to the gym, and spending time in the gym doing the reps. Week after week. Year after year.

Watching daily sunsets is a great goal (strategy), but useless without scheduling the time, taking my seat, and waiting patiently.

There have been years in my life of never watching sunsets. And years where i catch some of them.

Never is the enemy of sometimes.

However the pinnacle tactic is to watch ‘all’ of them.

Also, i’ve had years where i see nearly all of them.

Remember, to make habits, hope doesn’t do it, the tactical reps do.

Sometimes is the enemy of always.

Always is the best tactic for habitual hope.

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What the New Year brings you proportionally depends on what you bring to 2026.

Same for each month, week, day, and moment.

Same for each thought, dream, and goal.

Constantly bring your best if you want to constantly be your best.

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You were born to triumph with optimism and possibility.

Think like you mean it.

Grow like you mean it.

Improve like you mean it.

Teach like you mean it.

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