I don’t know if this’ll add anything to your life or not.
But behold some New Year resolutions I make every year, but never get around to doing:
1. Regular Twitter Spaces calls
2. Live Zoom calls to my list
3. Granting paying Email Players subscribers Marco Polo app access to me in addition to email access they have always gotten
4. Writing a 4th Villains book
5. Writing the graphic novel/comicbook adaption script for my first Enoch Wars novel Zombie Cop
Very unlikely I’ll do any of these in 2026 either.
i.e. Anti-resolutions.
What I will be focusing on instead:
* Getting a coherent 1st draft for the 7 (possibly 8 or 9) part series of novels I started writing in September
* Growing my options trading account as quickly & ruthlessly as possible to keep making cashflow faster than the government inflation can destroy it (what our Low Stress Trading framework does)
* Helping take our Low Stress Trading company itself to $10 million – as we did just a hair less than half that in 2025, 600%+ growth (people are hungry for what it does, to say the least)
* Putting out more “bait” for high quality Low Stress Trading affiliates, while turning off the low class/low quality/low info affiliates
* Making the 15-year anniversary Email Players issue (the August 2026 issue) the best, most valuable, most intense of them all so far
* Writing another Email Players “annual” issue
* Going to the first mastermind I’ve attended since late 2018, especially since it’s hosted by my pal Trevor Mauch and will be in the Burgle, which is less than 3 hours’ drive and I drive up there once a month anyway
* Possibly co-hosting our first “Vortex” event for our Low Stress Trading students in Bandon, OR, an hour from where I live – and in the very same wine bar/restaurant where my business partner in BerserkerMail and Low Stress Trading Troy Broussard & I plotted our first event (a one-off even we called “Wine Villains”), that ultimately led to our various biz ventures like software and trading
* Revamping my home page to optimize it for better and higher quality opt-ins
* Assembling & launching the sequel to my Copy Salesliloquies: Vol 1 book later this year
Again, I don’t know if this adds anything to anyone’s life.
But I have found writing all that out clarifying. And this sort of exercise is a way to get more done, even if for no other reason than it helps eliminate thinking about all the stuff you thought you’d do, but never really had any intention of doing it.
If you have not done the same for your 2026, I highly suggest it.
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Ben Settle
