Creating Your 2026 Becoming Board
January 24, 2026
I have been researching goal-setting strategies to help JamboJon start 2026 off on the right foot. While collecting ideas, I came across two techniques that really resonated with me. I’d love to share them with you and make my own spin for marketing. This strategy may help you identify how to clear your focus for marketing momentum this year.
Brian Tracy, a world-renowned speaker, shared his 60-second goal-setting strategy. While I am sure this simple idea could be fleshed out into a miniseries, its simplicity really resonated with me.
- Grab a piece of paper and write 10 goals for 2026.
- Which of these ten items would propel the rest of the goals?
- With a new piece of paper, write down the one goal
- Say it out loud
- Write everything that needs to happen to reach that goal
- Put them in order
- Take action every day.
That’s the list. Brian said, “If you do that, you’ll be rich!”
Let’s imagine for a minute that this list applies to your business or to your job. What are your ten goals for 2026? Is there a revenue goal, a team size, a number of supported clients, a book to write, a system to incorporate, a dream to scale, or a movement to spark? Take a minute, even right now, to dream.
Of those 10 goals, which is the most impactful? IF you were to stack these goals in line like dominoes, which goal is going to make the biggest impact to make momentum towards reaching all of them? As Marie Kondo says, “What sparks joy?”
Using tunnel vision, let’s make space for the one thing, and let the other possibilities go to the wayside, for now. If we focus on the objective, the actions we need to take to achieve it will come to the forefront. By organizing the list of actions to take, we can prioritize time chunks that can build your future
Helpful Tip
Need some help thinking of goals or how to achieve a goal? Consider using your favorite AI tool. Use this prompt:
“I want to accomplish _____ in 2026. What twenty questions would you ask me about this goal before we make a plan?”
After the response comes, write,
“Based on what you know about my business and industry, how would you answer those questions?”
Then,
“What big thing do I need to complete to accomplish this goal? What small tasks reside in those big tasks?”
Now write,
“Please create a step-by-step plan to accomplish this goal, break the steps into actions that would take less than 60 minutes to complete.”
Becoming Board
You’ve probably heard about a Vision Board. This is not a new concept. You take a poster or a piece of paper, and add photos or your desired results. For example,
- Vacation
- Health
- Competition completed
- Book written
- Revenue Achieved
From a psychological perspective, these images may be too far ahead of what our reality is to transport our imagination into action. What if there was a better way?
A becoming board visualizes the daily actions that will create the reality. Rather than a photo of a beach vacation - which is the vision - the becoming board has a photo of you making a phone call to a client - which is the action required to become the vacationer.
It’s my belief that the business you are building won’t grow past your personal capacity. Business will test every fiber of your character, your emotional intelligence, your resilience, and your leadership. If you want a bigger business and to drive an emotional impact for your clients, you have to increase your capacity; emotionally, spiritually, physically, financially, and intellectually. The vision board isn’t the problem - it's the end goal, the becoming board is a tool to help you get there! Becoming more capable, more organized, more disciplined, and more able to hold the responsibility you are creating.
Included in this article is a worksheet for you to apply this principle to your personal goals and for your business this year! If you are a female business leader, let me know if you’d like an invitation to my Women's Mastermind! We are building our Becoming Boards this month. Check that group out here.
