10 lessons for 2026 from crewing Tony Robbins’ event

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Happy New Year! 🎉🥳

I missed my space, and I wanted to send one very last message for the year, and the 10th message I owed as part of the “10 newsletters experiment” (80% success rate for my experiment, which counts as a success if we think Pareto, haha).

For this last post, I am only talking about my highlight of December: crewing Date with Destiny, Tony Robbins’ event in Palm Beach. I also picked 10 ideas from the event that can inspire you toward a great and purposeful 2026.

10 lessons for a 2026 lived with purpose

1. Life runs on patterns. Once you see them, you can change them.
Most of our reactions are not random. They are habits of focus, language, and interpretation. The real flex is to become self-aware and honest with ourselves (though honesty is painful).

2. Meaning comes before emotion. And language trains the nervous system.
The body often feels excitement and stress in the same way. The word we choose decides the experience. Call it stress, and you get tension. Call it excitement, and you get energy.

3. Focus is rarely neutral. We tend to generalize and distort events just to be faithful to the story we tell ourselves.
When one area feels off, the mind loves to turn it into “my whole life is a mess”. Fair focus brings emotional balance back. And training the muscle to see the situation from a different angle, from a different state, is key.

4. Questions shape states and self-perception.
“What is wrong with me?” leads to shame and freeze. “What is the good in this?” or “How can I improve this?” leads to movement. Better questions create better inner chemistry.

5. Pain is part of life. Suffering is optional.
Pain shows up no matter what. Suffering appears when we resist it or turn it into an identity (often because it feeds hidden needs). The only way out is through.