The anti-vision plan for 2026

With the new year underway, many people are taking time to set objectives. Others are reflecting on whether their personal vision is still accurate and helps them steer in the right direction.

I invite you to step back and pause for a moment.

Let’s focus on what will be important and meaningful for you when 2026 is over.

Which of your objectives will have helped you choose the right path?

You don’t know? Me neither. Neither for you, nor for me.

So, how can we make the right choices for our lives?

By taking a moment for internal reflection—but in the opposite direction. Instead of a traditional vision, we create an anti-vision.

In your current life, what do you feel strongly about?

What do you absolutely despise about your daily routine?

What do you do regularly, but wish you didn’t have to?

Where do you go when you’d rather be somewhere else?

In what situations do you feel overly tense?

Think about these questions and be brutally honest with yourself. It doesn’t help to pretend that everything is fine.

The areas, behaviors, or situations you feel most strongly about will reveal your potential focus areas. Pick one or two (not too many) and decide to:

• Stop, quit, or avoid it entirely,

• Reduce it,

• Change it in a way that provides relief,

• Or replace it with a better alternative.

Depending on the topic and the scale of the change, you might start small (like reducing) before reaching total elimination.

Why this anti-vision? By eliminating what we truly despise, we gain clarity on what truly matters. Removing or reducing the negative parts creates space for the positive, even without adding new goals. Knowing for certain what we don’t want leads us to recognize what we value.

With thousands of different life options making it difficult to decide what’s best, it can be a relief to know with certainty what we exclude from our lives.

If you have a vision—great. If not, start with an anti-vision. Sometimes, knowing where you don't want to be is the fastest way to get where you belong.