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The Forte Labs team is gathering here this week to do a company annual review.

We’re following the same structure I propose in my upcoming book Life in Perspective:

1. Past: Recall and revisit everything we did in 2025, to commemorate our accomplishments and extract as much wisdom as possible to inform our future plans.
2. Present: Bring our attention to the present moment, connect to what is exciting and alive for us, and begin fleshing out what the next few months will look like.
3. Future: Look into the future and begin envisioning our core values, mission, hiring needs, and major milestones for 2026.

Meanwhile, over 600 participants are doing their personal annual review as part of our Annual Review 2026 program.

Our Circle community is buzzing with insights!

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How AI Creates SOPs in Minutes (ft. Hayden Miyamoto)

I watched my friend Hayden Miyamoto create enterprise-level standard operating procedures (SOPs) in under an hour using AI. And I’m sharing with you exactly how he does it.

In this video, you’ll see the complete process for turning tribal knowledge into documented systems that actually get used.

No more six-month documentation projects or procedures that sit unused in a folder.

Watch on YouTube

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How to Evolve Your Relationship with Information

I’ve noticed that people’s relationship with information evolves through four distinct phases:

1. Consuming: You’re reading, scrolling, watching—but not saving or applying anything. This feels productive until you realize nothing sticks.
2. Collecting: You start bookmarking and taking notes. You’re saving the “good stuff,” but all that saving doesn’t automatically lead to results.
3. Curating: You refine what you’ve collected, selecting and distilling the best ideas. Yet even this can feel incomplete when you’re still working only with others’ ideas.
4. Creating: You transform what you’ve learned into something new—writing, videos, projects. This is where the magic happens.

Here’s what’s interesting: these phases aren’t always linear. You might cycle through them depending on the season or project. Winter might be your time for consuming and collecting, while spring inspires curating and creating.

Your action step: Identify which phase you’re in right now. What’s no longer working for you?

Then take one intentional step forward—save a single highlight, distill a key takeaway, or create something small to share your insights.

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How to Make Better Decisions in 2026

Every day, you make around 35,000 decisions. Isn’t that crazy?

They shape everything – from your career and relationships to your daily life – in ways you might not even realize.

And yet, have you ever stopped to consider how you’re making your decisions?

My mentor, Joe Hudson, has spent years refining a powerful approach to help people make better decisions.

And he has distilled the most effective practices and protocols into his Great Decisions Course, a five-week experience that’s running again this January.

If this is something you want to work on, click the button below, and I will share with you in the coming weeks…

1. A preview of what goes into making better decisions
2. An exclusive discount for the upcoming cohort of the Great Decisions Course

Join the waitlist

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