I thought I could plan my whole 2026 business strategy with myself and a couple Post-its. 🤡

I thought I could plan my whole 2026 business strategy with myself and a couple Post-its. 🤡

I'd done plenty of vision work: Year Compass exercises, free planning workshops with coaches I trust. All of it was powerful and useful.

But I didn't have an actual tactical plan. How was I going to make the money? What things was I actually going to do to get sh*t done?

I was sitting there staring at a wall when Alisia Gill texted me: "Want to do a 2026 business planning strategy day together?"

Hell yes.

Alisia is not only the best kind of friend - supportive, caring, thoughtful - but in the almost 7 years we've been friends, I know she does not f*ck around. She calls me on my sh*t. She pushes me when I'm thinking small. She tells me straight if I'm saying something that doesn't align with the person she knows I am.

So when she said she wanted to do a planning day with me, I was all in.

We spent a day building actual plans: revenue math, capacity checks, what we're stopping, what we're starting, kill-switches for when things aren't working.

If I had to do this alone? I would probably still be staring at a blank page and feeling defeated. Instead, it was joyful. Energizing. And my strategy is way better than if I'd tried to do it by myself.

What are you trying to figure out alone that would be better with a partner?

Image: Alisia and me at the end of the day, tired but jazzed and ready to take on the world