The HigherUp Podcast A Guide To Planning Your Life in 2026 | The HigherUp Podcast Ep. 68
Dec 25, 2025
Discover transformative insights from recent events with influential figures like Tony Robbins and Gary Vee. Learn to define your life values and rules to guide your decisions toward positivity. Michael shares a practical exercise to identify both your 'towards' and 'away-from' values, helping you craft a powerful life mission statement. Plus, rewrite the primary question that shapes your thoughts to align with your newfound clarity. Get ready to reshape your life as you plan for 2026!
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Lessons From Time With Top Titans
- Michael Smoak spent weeks meeting top speakers and entrepreneurs, including Jesse Itzler, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tony Robbins, and John Maxwell.
- He describes those encounters as life-changing and a major influence on his craft and confidence.
Pull Toward Values, Push From Pain
- Tony Robbins' framework separates 'towards' and 'away' values to make good feelings easy and bad ones hard.
- Consciously defining values and rules brings subconscious patterns into the light for deliberate change.
Write Toward Values By Hand
- Write 5–12 'towards' values as emotions that pull you toward fulfillment and pleasure.
- Use simple prompts like 'What must be present for me to feel fulfilled?' and write them by hand for memory impact.