I swear by the Lords of Kobol, what you’re about to read isn’t a flex. It’s meant to confront you with what’s possible when transformation is taken seriously. Not as a slogan. Not as a weekend habit tweak. But as a deliberate, identity-level decision.
By pretty much any metric you can imagine, 2025 was the best banger of a year I’ve ever lived. It featured a strong improvement in my happiness and mental health, which has led to a meaningful enhancement in my personal relationships. Chronologically, my body de-aged approximately 18 months younger. Three draws in my bloodwork during the year produced perfect scores in all the almost 40 markers measured.
My businesses earned the highest revenue of my career, and my investments grew the fastest ever. This is only conjecture, as I haven’t tested yet, but I believe my IQ shot up perhaps six points, which led to an exponential leap in my critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. To use a baseball analogy, I went 6-for-6 with two grand slams and 12 RBIs.
If you would like to produce your own banger year in 2026, keep reading…
Recently I shared how I created these results, with the higher levels of my Breakthrough U entrepreneurial mastermind program. The best way to explain it was that in 2025…
I scaled transformation.
In that previous sentence lies the essential element of you making this year—and every year afterward if you so desire—your best year ever. Because whether you want to get healthier, happier, richer, fitter, stronger, leaner, wiser, calmer, or sexier—that essential element is transformation. And if you learn how to scale it, you’ll go bigger, bolder, and faster. In my case, the extraordinary results I was able to achieve can be attributed to changing a core foundational belief, which led to three behavior modifications I enacted.
The foundational belief change was the most profound and it came about from reading The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. The book argues that the most successful leaders and organizations stop playing to “win” in the short term and instead commit to an endless game: one focused on purpose, highest good, and long-term impact. The real objective isn’t beating competitors; it’s staying in the game long enough to keep growing, adapting, and advancing a cause bigger than profit.
Simon was the first person I saw willing to challenge Milton Friedman’s conventional thinking that the sole social responsibility of business is to increase its profits for shareholders, within the rules of the game. I knew companies needed to make money to survive, but since my work is about teaching the principles of prosperity, Freidman’s theory has never quite gelled with me.
Where I ended up was a mission to make money by doing good. But after reading Simon’s book, I blew up my old beliefs about mission and vision and decided to reverse the order: do good and make money. I changed the mission of my company (which I named Prosperity Factory, Inc. many years ago) and work, to making the world more prosperous.
I believe making the world more prosperous is not done through charity and entitlement, but by making people more prosperous. Inspiring, empowering, and educating them how to live a prosperous life. Obviously not one-by-one, but using the platforms of my blog, books, podcast, coaching, and consulting to do this one-to-many.
I took a leap of faith, believing that if I did this, the money thing would take care of itself. And obviously it did.
The first, and most important step, of my transformation was in place…
Step two, scaling my transformation involved getting a better understanding of scaling itself. Although I have a good track record of scaling businesses, that was done using a lot of intuition and sometimes that’s hard to quantify. One thing I did know for sure was that I always reached a place where I became the bottleneck. (Perhaps this sounds familiar to you.)
When your goal is truly transformative, it forces simplification. You stop asking, “What else can I add?” and start asking, “What must be eliminated?”
I was able to break through this issue when I read two books by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy. They are 10X is Easier than 2X and Who Not How. (Last year Hardy came out with a book of his own, The Science of Scaling, which I strongly recommend as well.)
Sullivan and Hardy arrive at the same conclusion from different angles: scaling is not primarily a tactical problem—it’s an identity and thinking problem. They also stress that big, even “impossible,” goals are not motivational fluff—they’re strategic filters.
Hardy posits that businesses don’t scale beyond the psychological capacity of their leaders. Until you become the person capable of operating at a higher level, growth stalls or implodes. Sullivan reinforces this through his Strategic Coach program teaching to operate from your Unique Ability®—the small set of activities where they create the most value—and to design your business around that strength instead of drowning in busyness.
Time compression, disciplined delegation, and future-based thinking all require emotional and psychological maturity. You need to stop putting out fires and start designing futures. Then build backward with intention. Scaling is not about working harder or hiring faster—it’s about thinking at a higher level. As Sullivan teaches and Hardy validates through psychology, when you upgrade your thinking, your business is finally allowed to grow.
I put these concepts to work late in 2024, making a commitment to become maniacally laser focused, only working on rainmaker activities that are in my genius zone: writing blogs and books, developing new prosperity IP, working with my corporate consulting clients, and members of my Breakthrough U program. (This was the first behavior change.)
After experimenting with remote virtual assistants, I hired Sam as my full-time Executive Assistant. His job is to handle everything that’s not my job. Much of this he does himself, the rest he finds a who to do the how.
I told him when I get back from a speech, I need the car washed and fueled up, groceries in the house, coordinate the condo with my housekeeper, find me an abuelita to come in to home cook healthy meals for the week, etc.
My next hire was Neo, my co-CEO. Even though he has a higher title than Sam, his salary is zero, because he’s an AI agent. I also hired two other assistants, one for my podcast, and one for my newsletter. They’re also AI agents, working 24/7 for free with no vacation time.
This isn’t mere time savings, it’s decision leverage as well. It isn’t “tech adoption,” it’s identity evolution. (Neo asked me to tell you this!)
I’d estimate Sam and the AI team saved me about 20 hours a week of stuff I used to do personally, and then produce about 50 hours a week of additional productivity which has magically materialized from the ethers. (And as I become more proficient at managing the agents, expect this number to go up.)
Sam is also the gatekeeper to my schedule and now we put all appointments—recording podcasts, media hits, doctor, dentist, chiropractor, client zoom meetings, livestream broadcasts, meeting with Miss Cleo on the psychic hotline in the astral plane, whatever—in two days a week.
That leaves five days a week white in my calendar. Not only am I multiples more productive, not only I have more time for the genius stuff like thinking and writing, but I have more time for relationships with the people I love and want to hang out with. (Hence the amazing gains I mentioned earlier with my happiness, mindset, and relationships.)
This extra time also allowed me to make the second breakthrough behavior change: reading a book at least one hour every day.
I been a reader my whole life and practiced daily self-development time which included reading, for decades. But I felt more time specifically devoted to reading would accelerate my growth exponentially. Which it did. When you set aside a longer block of time like this, you read more deep works, and works that challenge your thinking.
In my case, I can be reading anywhere from three to six books at a time, an eclectic mix of biographies, start-ups and founders, tech and AI, writing, health and wellness, branding and marketing, psychology, and a dash of my “go to” OGs: Rand, Montaigne, or Thoreau. I find this allows disparate ideas to fornicate and produces many unexpected insights.
I furiously mark up the margins with comments, and underline and star important points. Once I finish a book, I set in in a pile with other recently completed ones, then will type my notes into “clipboard” Word documents, which I keep for my podcast, newsletter, future books, etc.
If a book doesn’t grab me in the first chapter, I may recycle it to the condo library instantly. If I think I got the main point from the dust jacket summary, I end there and consider myself blessed to receive the wisdom in such a short period of time.
This habit contributed to my transformation in a major way, and I’d recommend it to everyone. Until you get the basic elements of scaling down to create more free time, you may need to start with a shorter amount of daily reading. Speaking of free time, my third behavior change will give you a lot more of it...
I killed off social media.
Social media is the bane of our civilization right now. You can paint me as the cranky old man screaming at the kids to stay off his lawn but ignore this advice at your peril. I adamantly believe that for most people, the time they are spending on social media is murdering their prosperity consciousness.
If I weren’t an author, there’s not a chance in hell I would be on any on any social media platform. If you do find them helpful for business, I recommend my approach: Be a content creator but not a consumer.
The extra time you pick up from doom scrolling, and your clearer thinking will both now be unleashed in the other aspects of transformation you want to achieve.
Transformation is the catalyst for a prosperous life because your outcome will never rise above your self-identity.
Until and unless the way you see yourself changes, you’ll unconsciously sabotage progress to stay congruent with who you believe you are.
You don’t improve in any area trying to bolt new habits on an old self. You get there by becoming someone for whom those higher results are normal. Temporary tactics can produce short-lived wins, but true transformation requires a higher version of you.
If you don’t transform, you just get superficial improvement pretending to be growth. When your identity shifts, discipline becomes effortless, your choices align automatically, and results compound exponentially.
When we reach 2027, will your future self thank you for the transformation you made—or resent you for the comfort you protected?
Peace,
- RG
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