In 2026, don't escape your boring life by binge-watching the exciting lives of others on TV, the Internet, and streaming platforms. Instead, use the New Year to develop yourself until your life is so improved that it is you others watch on TV, follow on social media, and subscribe to on streaming platforms. It is not impossible. Little habits like learning a new word daily, reading to expand your mind, journaling to scale up your memory, making eye contact when you speak and listen to others, habitually remembering people's names and little things about them and their families, training your voice to improve your articulation, compound, and eventually make you such an interesting and engaging personality that success and access follow you in excess!
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Ten Principles That Will Make You a Better Person in 2026
Be a constant learner, and you will become a persistent earner.
Better to deliberately lose an argument and win a friend than win the argument and lose a pal.
Don't focus on correcting people. Concentrate on connecting with people.
Don't just aim to be educated. Aim to be enlightened.
Don't merely see. Go deeper and observe.
Don't only read. Also, ruminate on what you read.
First work for money. Then make money work for you.
First, listen to people as if they are important. And then important people will end up listening to you.
It is good to listen. It is better to ponder on what was said.
What you know from school will get you a job. Who you know from school will make you rich.
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.2024.
A Practical Guide To Success In Thirty Months
Give yourself thirty months to become the person you have always wanted to be. Start by reinventing yourself by restructuring your thinking process. Time is your most valuable asset. Relationships follow it. And then money. If you can master these resources, you will have no masters!
Let's start with time. Please do not waste it. You can progress if you let people waste your money, because you can always make more. But it is almost impossible to get ahead if you let others waste your time. Why? Because you cannot make more time. Once it is gone, it is gone. So anyone who wastes your time must be a goner.
Mark and identify people who waste your time and unapologetically avoid them. When you honour time, time will make sure that you are honoured with enough time!
Then move on to money discipline. Start by not eating out at restaurants or ordering food via apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, or Deliveroo for a year. Instead, cook all your meals at home. You really don't even need that much food.
Since you are an adult who is no longer growing, don't buy any new clothes for a year. Wash and reuse your old clothes. Cut out beer, wine, Coca-Cola, and other drinks, and just drink tap water for the next two and a half years. If that is boring, buy oranges and lemons and juice them. Not only will that be good for your health, but it will also be good for your wallet. Eliminate smoking, clubbing, and partying. Cancel your Netflix subscription and read books instead. Manage your old phone, and don't upgrade it.
Then, invest 50% of the money you have saved in the VOO, VFIAX, SPY, QQQ, VWO, SCHD, or any other well-regarded ETF. Invest 25% in a combination of Bitcoin, Chainlink, and Bitcoin Cash. Finally, invest the remaining 25% in stocks of the Magnificent Seven companies minus Tesla (Alphabet (Google)), NVIDIA, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple.
Don't worry if they go down on some days. It is immature and unrealistic to expect that your investments will always appreciate. The truth is, you will not make money overnight, but you can and will definitely make it over time. That is why I said give yourself thirty months.
After you do this, become a ghost for another year while your investments percolate. Go to work and return home to read and work out. You will be building your mind and body. And then, on Friday, go to the mosque for Salatul-Jumu'ah if you are a Muslim and return home. If you are a Christian, go to your regular service and return home. Then, you pray every morning and night.
Your religion is not as important as your devotion to God. And the best way to show dedication to your Maker is to treat others as you would like to be treated, irrespective of their religion, race, or ethnicity.
If you can sacrifice two years of your life for this discipline, which is approximately 2.5% of your life, I can almost guarantee you that you will live the rest of your life as the best of your life. You will conquer poverty with your investments. You will conquer sickness and counter the effects of ageing through your daily workouts. And your mind will stay sharp as a razor through your regular reading. And finally, you will draw closer to God.
These are practical steps to success that anybody can take to achieve results. Because if you want what you have never gotten, you must also do what you have never done.
If you like, scoff and insult. If God spares all our lives for the next two years, you will likely be in the same financial, mental, physical, and spiritual situation that you are in today.
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.