80% of goals fail by February, so here are 6 simple steps to realign your 2026 goals.

1. Identify Jan mistakes

2. Dig into the root cause of mistakes

3. Plan to reduce or remove the root causes

4. Reaffirm Q1 and Feb goals

5. Forget Jan mistakes

6. Put Feb goals into action now

Most people dwell on mistakes. Dwelling can make people spiral and grind any progress to a screeching halt.

Successful people acknowledge mistakes, take appropriate action, then move forward.

Faster recovery = more success.

Sketching ideas seems obvious for Makers building things, but it’s also helpful for business owners working through messes of ideas.

1. Product or service stacks

2. One-pager ideation

3. Video background concepts

4. Pillar content connections

Sketching ideas captures the feeling before sinking tons of time, effort, and money into them (just like with build ideas).