616: How to Prepare NOW for Your Best Year Ever

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Business, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

During the holiday season, many people break from their daily routines by staying up late, having drinks, and overeating, and tell themselves they'll get serious again on January 1st. But if you want next year to be the best year of your life, waiting until the new year to begin is one of the biggest mistakes you can make.

In today's episode, I'm sharing why the final weeks of the year are your greatest opportunity to prepare mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually for the future you want to create. The truth is, the decisions you make in December will undoubtedly impact the momentum, mindset, and confidence you carry into the new year.

I'll also walk you through some of the practices I'm focusing on right now, including my commitment to 30 minutes of silence every day for 30 days, and how listening to that voice—call it your intuition, your soul, or divine downloads from God—can guide you to make decisions that align with what matters most.

Finally, I'll show you how to use your Miracle Morning with a specific year-end focus that will help you start the new year with clarity, momentum, and purpose, to make 2026 the best year of your life.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Why preparing for your best year ever begins before January 1st.
How December habits create momentum, confidence, and clarity for the new year.
The role of reflection and journaling in closing out your year with intention.
Why listening to your intuition can align you with what matters most.
How to use your Miracle Morning to intentionally prepare for 2026.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level,
0:16.6	as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals
0:21.9	themselves, and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what
0:26.4	you need to do to do the same. Ready holidays are upon us. Thanksgiving was a few weeks ago. Christmas is coming up. And even if you don't celebrate the quote, unquote, holidays, we got a new year coming up. And for 99. Something percent of the population, that's typically a significant time where you're reflecting
0:55.3	on the previous 12 months, you're planning the next 12 months. And if you're not doing those
1:00.2	things, I'm going to invite you to consider doing those things starting during this episode.
1:05.6	So not waiting until January 1st to begin. And that is the, I think one of the biggest mistakes people make is that they might be thinking about the new year in December. But what often happens is we finish our current year with an arsenal of not necessarily the most productive habits. Right. So it's like holidays are coming up. I'm just going to cruise. I'm going to take it easy, which, by the way, I'm all about cruising and taking it easy during the holidays, but I don't think it's an all or nothing pursuit. Right? This isn't a, it's the holidays. So I'm going to completely just overeat and over drink and stay up really late. Not that you can't stay up late. But the point here is
1:45.8	finding a bit of a balance where the premise is that if you want 2026, if you want next year
1:53.4	to be one of, if not the best year of your life, which I can't think of a good reason not to make
1:58.8	every year the best year of our lives.
2:01.7	But if that's an aspiration for you, if it's not, consider it. But if it is, you don't want to wait
2:07.6	until January 1st, 2nd, 3rd to actually start preparing yourself mentally, physically,
2:17.0	emotionally, and logistically for your best year ever.
2:22.3	In fact, I can even argue that this episode is going to come out on, I think, December 17th.
2:26.5	I can even argue like, all right, the last 17 days have already been a sign of how you're
2:33.0	preparing yourself. And even if you didn't do anything the last
2:36.8	17 days that was productive, I'm sure you did, your normal human being that listens to the
2:41.1	Achieve Your Goals podcast. I'm sure you're probably working hard to finish your goals strong.
2:46.0	But the idea is that if you want next year to be the best year of your life, I think focusing on making December
2:52.1	the best month of your life is a high priority. And that's always been my, I don't know, for the last
2:59.2	20 years, that was a mindset shift that I think it was a mentor. I can't even remember who taught me
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