Tag: Start Today

2026 Goals: Find Your Purpose

Achieving Goals, Happiness, Health, Leadership, Relationships, Success

Finding your purpose is a well worn phrase and can often cause people to switch off and stop listening. There is another phrase that can be used when talking about purpose that was popularised by Simon Sinek, and that is starting with why.

We all have a central reason why we do what we do and this reason is hard wired into our brain by the time we get to our early 20s. It is our operating model that is the root of our decisions and how we live our lives.

It also comes from the central part of our brain which has no capacity for language. So, identifying what our Why is and describing it can be difficult. The good news is that Simon Sinek wrote books entitled Start With Why and Find Your Why that can help you figure it out.

Once you find your Why it will supercharge your success and happiness in your life. Also, your Why will help you figure out your 2026 goals. Goals that will more likely be reached because they will be aligned with who you are rather than trying to achieve generic goals that you have no emotional connection to.

Do Something

Happiness, Success

Often we wait for the right idea, the right job or the right partner before we trying something new. This waiting is a form of hiding, hiding from trying that new thing, because we fear failure or we fear making the wrong choice and wasting our lives.

If we don’t choose something we are wasting our lives. The regrets most elderly people have is the things they did not try. You have time to try and fail and try again. You will also either succeed or learn and then succeed. Failure is essential to success, because we can learn from it.

My advice is this, figure out what your values are, what your beliefs are and what your ethics are. Then go find a project to start, a challenge to take on, a problem to solve or a role to try that aligns with these and see what happens. If it aligns with your values, beliefs and ethics then you will thrive, you will feel empowered and you will feel fulfilled by the work you do.

But you must choose something and start.