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It’s not long now until Santa squeezes himself down that chimney. If you celebrate it, Christmas is a time for chilling and being with loved ones. BUT...wouldn’t it be even more enjoyable if you had the best year of your life planned and primed first. We are in the “business end” of the year, and over the next two editions of Winformation Weekly we are going to cover everything you need to ensure 2026 is the year you look back on and say...that was the one. That was the year that was the foundation for all my success. So below we are going to cover an 8 point personal review of your year in One Idea to Win in Business. And following straight on, in today’s One Idea to Win in Life, we cover the exact process to create a compelling vision for you 2026 and beyond, that will set the scene for your achievements and actively pull you towards your dream life. A proper review, and a proper vision. What a week to be alive.

PLUS - Look out for the Boxing Day version of Winformation where we pick finish off everything needed to have your best year yet. Inside 26^th's newsletter will be a special gift from me too. So, play time is coming, but for now, we work.

Let’s go.

One Idea to Win in Business

Something to Review Your 2025

The 8 Point Personal Annual Review That Makes Next Year Finally Click

Over the next 2 weeks, we are going to cover it all. If you’re tired of getting to the end of the year not much further ahead than you were, this let’s get granular. Let’s review where it’s going right, and let’s identify where it’s going wrong. From there, the path forward clears itself.

So, with 45 minutes to yourself and a nice blank word document. Let’s complete the 8 point personal annual review. This is great for business and for life. Let’s get started.

1. Greatest hits. Always so important to start with the positive. List your 3 greatest achievements of the year. These could have been things you intended to do, or things that you unexpectedly nailed during the last 12 months.

2. Feeling your best. What were the 3 times during the year that you felt your best? Physically, mentally and your most accomplished best self.

3. Habit tracking. What habits, thought patterns or actions were you taking in the weeks in the run up to those 3 times?

4.  More of. With the above in mind, what do you need to do more of next year?

5.  Less of. What do you need to do less of next year?

6. Stop doing. What do you need to stop doing altogether next year?

7. Hand breaks and engines. Who were the people that held you back last year (your hand breaks). Half down hand breaks are people who slowed you down, drained your energy. These people need to be spoken to, or time with them is reduced. Full down hand breaks are people that just simply got in your way and stopped you achieving. These are the people that need to be cut. Who were your engines? The people that inspired you and propelled you forward, and you for them. These are the people that you need to increase your exposure with next year.

8. Magic wand. If you could wave a magic wand and create an entirely possible but maybe unplausible outcome for the year just gone, what would your life and business have looked like. Think quickly, no emotion. Write it down. This thought point, and what you put down, will help you create a solid vision for next year from which you can set your objectives, milestones and goals.

The answers to the above are so important. Setting a vision and goals for 2026 is made far more easy with this exercise completed.

One Idea to Win in Life

Something to Ensure Your Best Ever Year

Your Best Ever Year Starts Here The 10 Step 2026 Vision Creation Process

Did you know human beings have 15-20 big daily decisions that govern their medium to long term success. What time to wake up, what to eat, whether to work out, what to focus on at work. These are governed by a nice set of clear goals. However, did you also know that we have over 35,000 subconscious choices to make every day. That’s where we need a vision. Goals are useless without first paining a compelling vision for your life. Something you can see, something you can feel. Here is how you write a vision so crystal clear, that living it, seeing it, and imaging it on the regular will mean you are actively pulled towards it, consciously and subconsciously daily.

This is the exact process I use and have refined over the years. Take your time with it. This is not a rush job.

Step 1. Create space before you start. Do not try to do this between meetings or late at night. You need a calm window. A train journey, a quiet room, a notebook and no phone. Your brain needs room to wander before it can focus. This is where most people struggle to be honest. Phone away, give yourself the time.

Step 2. Look far enough ahead to breathe. Think three to five years out. Far enough that today’s problems do not affect your direction. The further out you go, the more honest you can be about what you really want.

Step 3. Write as if it already exists. Describe your future life in the present tense. You are living it. You are there. This small shift changes how your brain engages with the vision. There’s science to this. Trust me on this one.

Step 4. Describe an average day, not a highlight reel. Forget the big moments for now. What does a normal weekday look like? When do you wake up? Where are you? Who are you with? What does your pace feel like?

Step 5. Go beyond work. If your vision only talks about business or money, it will feel hollow quickly. Include health, relationships, environment and headspace. A well-run business inside a chaotic life never ends well.

Step 6. Add detail until you can picture scenes. You are not writing slogans. You are writing something you can visualise. Locations. Conversations. How you feel walking into a room. If you cannot see it, it will not pull you forward.

Step 7. Notice where it makes you uncomfortable. Pay attention to the parts that feel slightly scary. That is usually where the growth is. If nothing in your vision challenges who you are today, it will not change who you become.

Step 8. Include who benefits beyond you. A strong vision always serves more than one person. Your family. Your team. Your customers. Your future self. This is what gives it weight on hard days. It must be big enough to be exciting, but everything has to be possible, if a little unlikely. Unlikely parts are good.

Step 9. Keep it short enough to revisit. This is not a novel. A few powerful paragraphs are enough. You should be able to read it in two minutes and feel pulled back into it every time.

Step 10. Read it regularly and let it work quietly. A vision does not shout. It whispers. Read it weekly. Let it influence decisions without forcing anything. Over time you will notice you start choosing differently. These choices will compound. The magic is in the compounding.

A good vision does not tell you what to do tomorrow, it shows you where you are headed long term. 10 dusty goals in the drawer won’t direct you like a crystal-clear vision will.

Look out for next week’s newsletter...Boxing Day, where we pick up everything you need for your best ever year.

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