Five Minute Friday: Why Most New Year Plans Fail And How to Do 2026 Differently
Boutique Chat
Ashley Alderson
5 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In today's Five Minute Friday, I'm officially inviting you to join me for The Best Year Yet Challenge—our biggest free training of the year.
Planning a new year shouldn't feel overwhelming or leave you burned out by March. Instead of chasing perfection or setting goals that fade fast, this challenge is all about creating a clear, realistic, and actionable plan for 2026—one you can actually stick to.
Over three powerful days (January 6–8), we'll review the past year, map out what truly moves the needle, build profitable systems, and create a marketing plan that works now—not six months ago. This is about small, imperfect, consistent action—and doing it together, in community.
Today's Episode:
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Why most New Year goals fail by March—and how to avoid that trap
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How to focus on the 20% of actions that drive 80% of your results
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What to expect from each day of the Best Year Yet Challenge
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How to turn big goals into clear, measurable, team-supported action plans
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Why planning beats perfection every single time
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to Five Minute Friday, and I just wanted to use today to tell you you are invited. |
| 0:05.7 | If you are knee-deep in colorful markers, a brand new planner, a vision board, and getting all set for |
| 0:13.5 | 26, I would love to join you personally. I would love to work with you to make sure 2026 is your best year yet because it's time for our best year yet challenge. |
| 0:23.9 | And you guys, this is our biggest free training of the year. |
| 0:26.7 | It is the one I get the most excited about because who doesn't love planning the new year, right? |
| 0:31.5 | And you get to do it in community with literally thousands of business owners just like you from around the world. |
| 0:36.6 | So inside of the best year yet |
| 0:37.9 | challenge, you guys, I want to talk about what you're going to expect for the three days that we're |
| 0:41.8 | going to spend together, January 6th, 7th, and 8th. And some things you could start to think about now |
| 0:47.7 | so that when you come to that training, you're set up to really hit the ground running. Because I think |
| 0:52.3 | one of the biggest mistakes that I see retailers make when it comes to planning out the new year is we get so overwhelmed with this idea of like |
| 0:59.4 | all the goals that we're setting. Right. We got goals coming out our ears. There's goals in every |
| 1:04.0 | area of our life. There's goal after goal after goal. And there's New Year's resolutions. Like there's |
| 1:08.2 | all these things. And we chase perfection at the new |
| 1:11.7 | year right and everyone's got their new clothes they're going to wear to the gym and the gym membership |
| 1:16.9 | sore but you know come march how many people are actually still going to the gym how much use |
| 1:24.1 | have those new gym clothes actually gotten do Do we actually even remember what our word |
| 1:28.4 | of the year is? And then how many of those goals by March have we actually worked our way |
| 1:33.8 | backwards to break down so that we have an actionable, measurable plan in order to reach them? |
| 1:41.0 | And does our team even know what they are? Do they even remember by March, right? |
| 1:44.6 | This is where so many of us fall off the wagon. I've definitely done that myself, trying to do it all |
| 1:50.1 | and trying to be perfect in every single area, like this whole new year, new me idea. And the reason I |
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