#88 - 2026 Reset: My Biggest Lessons From 2025 (& How I’m Changing For Next Year)
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In this solo episode of Choose Hard, I reflect on the biggest lessons 2025 taught me—and the changes I’m making heading into 2026. We talk about why identity shifts create real transformation, why habits beat goals, and how journaling and self-reflection help you get clear on what needs to change.
I also break down why relationships are the true currency of life, how preparation protects you in hard seasons, and why avoiding difficult conversations keeps you stuck. If you want a practical, real-life blueprint to reset your mindset, raise your standards, and build momentum into 2026—this one’s for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Choose Hard podcast. I'm your host, Cody McBroom. I am a father, husband, |
| 0:05.2 | entrepreneur, and coach, and the founder of tailored coaching method, a world-renowned online |
| 0:09.2 | fitness and nutrition coaching company helping people all over the world transform their |
| 0:13.1 | physiques. Today is going to be a discussion. We're going old school. I got, I got my notepad, |
| 0:19.8 | some insights and some changes I want to make in |
| 0:23.1 | 26. So this is going to be a less formal New Year's discussion. As I'm recording this, |
| 0:31.1 | it is Friday, December 12th. So we still got some time before 2026 shows up. But I got to be honest, I've been |
| 0:39.7 | thinking a lot about 2026 over the last week and just not honestly just can't believe |
| 0:45.7 | 2025 is already over. Part of me is like, where did the time go? This sucks. I wish it didn't fly |
| 0:52.1 | by so quick. The other part of me is like, thank you God for |
| 0:56.3 | bringing 2026. Let's reset. Let's revamp. Let's push. Let's change what we need to change. So on and so |
| 1:02.6 | forth. And I've been just journaling a lot about different aspects of life that I have reflected on. |
| 1:08.5 | And I want to encourage everybody to do that. And so what I want to do with this podcast is really just share my insights. |
| 1:13.7 | I want to be vulnerable. |
| 1:14.4 | I want to be transparent. |
| 1:15.2 | I want to be just really, just honestly real and raw about what is on my mind going into |
| 1:20.5 | 26, what I have taken away from 2025. |
| 1:24.8 | And then I might just put together a more formal podcast. Usually every year for the last |
| 1:29.2 | decade, I have done a podcast that is more structured and formal around how to set new year's |
| 1:37.7 | goals, how to create serious change in your life going into the new year, how to structure it, |
| 1:42.9 | how to reflect properly, so on and so forth. I might bring some of the questions up on my iPad that we actually use with our clients to help them do this. But I really wanted to just, I had plenty of extra time today and I wanted to jump on the mic and just riff on this topic. So I'm going to dive in. Before I do, I do want to mention a couple things. First, if you're watching |
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