3 Things You Need To Do To Dominate 2026
Every January, most people look back at the last year, decide they want a better next year, and make New Year’s resolutions to be better.
The problem? By February 1, all of those resolutions have gone out the window.
To ensure that you actually dominate 2026 and it doesn’t become “just another year,” we’re going to pull back to reflect on 2025 now and make a plan to dominate 2026 (way ahead of everyone else).
To kickstart, let’s talk about 3 key things you need to do to dominate the next year.
Thing 1: Embrace AI As A Tool
Love it or hate it, AI is here and it’s only going to become more engrained in our world, especially as business owners.
People fear that AI will replace them, but it’s not true and we’ve heard all these arguments before (like how Excel would replace accountants). People who leverage AI to their advantage will replace those who refuse to learn it (just like accounts who use Excel replaced those who refused to kept their 10-keys). Think about the tasks you do online that takes hours of your time and AI might very likely be able to cut that time to 15 minutes with good prompting.
In 2018, you might have thought about hiring a virtual assistant to help you with your busywork, but now that can be one or several AI Agents running well thought out prompts.
Thing 2: Commit To Publishing Content Consistently
If you’re like me when I first got some growth on Instagram, you got excited then immediately lazy focusing on what you could do better.
Better isn’t the answer until you have maxed out more. It is far better to consistently post 3x per week than 14 times per week for 1 week, none for another, then 1x per day for 2 weeks. Algorithms like what they can reasonably predict — and so does your human audience — so be consistent.
We all have heard this one and usually ignore it, but the people winning are consistently putting out content.
Even if it’s lower volume, be consistent and we can work on the volume once you’ve been consistent for 90 days.
Thing 3: Decide What Your 1 Priority Is For 2026
Whoever coined the term “priority list” didn’t know the definition of priority and it’s time we stopped misusing it.
Priority, like so many words, comes from Latin meaning “first”. You cannot have multiple “firsts”, so you cannot have multiple priorities. If you’ve been in the corporate world more than 4 hours, you’ve heard the garbage term “conflicting priorities” which gets the word wrong multiple times in just 2 words.
Instead of setting 12 “conflicting priorities,” pick the 1 thing you want to accomplish in 2026 and aggressively pursue it with everything you have in you.
What to do — today — to prep to dominate next year.
Pick 1 popular AI platform (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), start a new conversation, ask it for resources to learn how to use it effectively.
Pull out your calendar and notebook, be honest with yourself about how “busy” you are, decide what an achievable posting cadence looks like for your schedule, and block it on the calendar.
List out all of the things you want to achieve in 2026 that most people would start ranking on a “priority” list, pick the 1 that matters most, and cross out all the others.
