2026 Time Capsule Activity #1

Last year, we ran several activities, which were rooted in personal growth challenges or psychology audits. This year, we continue just that and remain focused on being 1% better, each day

Duration: 3 days
Time Roughly 3-4 minutes a few times a day
Reflection Day: Sat or Sunday

People can hardly stay focused long enough to track what they eat, never mind tracking what they feed their minds. It’s a shame, because make no mistake about it… mental inputs shape your thinking the same way food shapes your body.

If you constantly consume noise, drama, and distraction… that becomes your mental environment. And traders who live in noise make noisy decisions.

There’s a lot of noise going on right now. In the markets, geopolitics, and likely in our personal lives as well. It seems like the ideal time to audit ourselves — to understand what exactly our mental frameworks are using for energy.

Hence the activity to follow.

PAUSE

Outside of the war and chaos in the news and markets, let me quickly tell you the story of how this activity came about. SparkNotes version… of course.

Many of you have heard me discuss high-value and low-value decisions recently. Why? Simple.

A close friend of mine showed up to surprise his girlfriend of five years on the morning of Valentine’s Day. He got on the new outfit, with a fresh haircut from the night before. And drove over to her dance studio. When he got there, she was… engaged with another person - quite comfortably - who had evidently also brought her flowers.

He was distraught. He called me. We talked. In time, we came up with a war plan. And since then, we are working together (via routine check-ins) to make sure he focuses only on high value decisions. No posting on social media for attention, no ego-induced degeneracy.. Nothing bad for the soul. Just, fitness, mental strength, financial growth, personal relationships.

Here’s what he concluded after a few days - “If this was how I ran my life always, I probably would not have been here to begin with”

Powerful. Right?

Cue the activity.