Give Me 6 Minutes, And I’ll Show You How To Win 2026 (Even If You Feel Lost & Overwhelmed)
How to make the next 365 days the best ever.
The throbbing pain woke me up at 3:12 am.
It felt like someone set my foot on fire and stabbed it with a hot knife.
I grimaced as I got up from bed. The minute I put my foot down on the floor, a shooting pain from my heel extended all the way up my leg.
I’ve been injured before.
But this was one of the worst pains I’ve ever felt.
Walking was not an option, so I started to hop on my left leg.
But each bounce made my foot pain even worse. In desperation, I started to crawl. I needed to get to the anti-inflammation and painkillers I left on the kitchen table.
I’ve never felt so low.
Despite the pain and setback in the morning, I’ve still managed to:
Write 1,000 words for my upcoming book.
Deliver a live workshop for my coaching clients.
Follow up on leads, close sales, and build out my funnel.
Life isn’t fair.
But you can still win even on your worst days. Here’s how.
Stop trying to be normal.
I’ve declined all wedding invitations in 2026.
That sounds extreme. But I need to focus on what I want. I’ve never really been a big fan of weddings. I find the whole process contrived and overly curated.
Whenever I tell people this, they look at me sideways.
For a period of time, I’d feel guilty. But now I’ve stopped fighting against myself. I just accept that’s just how I am. I’m in a phase of my life where I value different things.
If you love weddings, great.
If you don’t love weddings, also great.
We aren’t in Kindergarten. You’re allowed to like different things.
To be exceptional, you have to be the exception.
This means:
You’ll work longer than everyone else.
You’ll wake up earlier than everyone else.
You’ll decline weddings and trips that take time away from you.
Sam Altman once said:
Extreme people get extreme results.
If you do what everyone else does, you’ll get what everyone else gets. Denying this reality is illogical and arrogant.
Weird obsession is the only way to win.
Volume negates luck when luck can’t produce volume.
Since 2019, I’ve written every day.
During that time, I had my heart broken. My girlfriend broke up with me after 6 years together. She then started dating her ‘best friend’ 2 weeks after. You can do the maths of whether she cheated or not.
I felt devastated.
To process the overwhelming emotion, I started to write.
What started as a way to process an emotion is now something I need to do every day. Writing is the same as eating food and drinking water.
If I don’t write, I feel mentally dehydrated.
A lack of writing makes me intellectually lethargic. My mental health dips, and I can feel myself spiralling into negative thought patterns.
But for most of my writing career, I was ignored.
For years, I’d post things into the void. I’d feel discouraged, but I knew if I kept going, I’d find an audience.
After 500+ articles and 6 years later, I now have:
92,000+ followers on Medium.
2,100+ subscribers on Substack.
A traditional book publishing deal with Earnshaw Books.
This experience taught me that:
Achievement comes from actions, not aspiration.
Create so much volume for a long period of time that it is unreasonable for people to ignore you. You’ll eventually break through.
Do so much volume it’s impossible not to become better.
Do so much volume that you turn haters into fans.
Do so much volume that you no longer doubt yourself.
Anything you want to achieve is on the other side of volume.
Volume beats talent when talent doesn’t do volume.
Change has a fixed cost, but a variable reward.
There’s a hidden pandemic infecting entrepreneurs:
Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO).
If left untreated, an entrepreneur can spend years chasing random trends and shiny objects without making any tangible results. They try to be everywhere at once. They hear about an opportunity and can’t help but jump on it.
But that’s where you can win.
I’ve got a friend in Bali who is constantly changing.
One minute, it’s an AI Chatbot. The next minute, it is Bitcoin. He keeps stopping and starting. Never really giving enough time to build anything meaningful.
But this prevents compound interest from working.
Because every time you change, you have opportunity costs.
Change comes with a fixed ignorance tax:
Knowledge: You never build specific knowledge that gives you an advantage over beginners or your competitors.
Network: People don’t know who you are and don’t trust you. They are unlikely to work with you or even refer any work to you.
Personal brand: Changing often means people don’t know what you do. Even your fans don’t know how they can work with you.
This makes doing anything new decline your performance by 20% or more.
But the upside of chasing a trend might be an extra 5–10%.
The math doesn’t math.
But even more worrying is the ‘magic bullet’ thinking.
My friend believes that one opportunity will set him up for life. But success is rarely a big leap. Overnight success is a myth. Building anything worthwhile takes an abundance of time and effort.
Success in anything is hard and takes way longer than you think.
Consistency in a distracted world is a superpower.
Skills are a hedge against inflation
I aggressively pursue learning.
In the last 60 days, I’ve become competent in:
Creating converting landing pages.
Recording Video Sales Letters (VSLs).
Building business operations and systems.
Learning to become semi-fluent in Bahasa Indonesian.
I’ve hired coaches, mentors, and consultants to teach me these skills.
This year alone, I’ve invested over $50k in my self-directed learning and development. I’ve got an unlimited budget for books.
Why am I so aggressive?
There’s no reality in which a less skilled person beats a more skilled one.
Luck can play a factor.
But as I’ve said, volume over time negates any luck.
Every generation, a new skillset becomes more valuable.
In the AI-world, skills such as:
Community building.
Sales and marketing.
Live and in-person public speaking.
These skills are becoming more valuable just as they are becoming rare.
The best part?
My skillset can never be stolen.
Money can be taken or taxed.
Jobs can be made redundant or lost.
Business models can become extinct.
But the dividends you get from skills are an investment you keep for life.
It keeps compounding and doesn’t depreciate over time.
Pick a project and keep failing at it.
I learned how to create landing pages by building them.
I didn’t watch any tutorials until I started creating the page. When I got stuck, I’d research only as far as to solve that problem. I’d continue. And then get stuck again. I’d repeat this cycle over and over.
But this process helped me learn landing pages faster than watching hours of theory and tutorials. Within a few weeks, I was pretty competent with the software and structure of a landing page to convert attention into an action.
I’ve got this skill forever now.
You can learn anything faster than in the past. Every obstacle can be overcome by a combination of YouTube, ChatGPT, or Google. There’s no need to go to a dusty library and scramble to find the right information.
The best financial investment is in the skills you possess.
The two rules to never stop winning at anything:
Get 1% better every day.
Never stop.
That’s it.
99% of the people that I started writing online with in 2019 have quit.
Most people don’t stick with anything for 6 months.
If necessity is the mother of invention…
Consistency is the father of winning.
Life will throw all sorts of things at you.
An injured foot. A bad client.
Anything that can happen, will happen.
But rather than avoid crap circumstances, embrace them.
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