Myke Hurley's 2026 Yearly Theme: Embracing the New

Understanding Yearly Themes

• 💡 A Yearly Theme is a guiding idea or phrase that provides a lens for making decisions throughout the year, promoting progress over rigid goals.
• 🎯 Unlike resolutions, themes are flexible and adaptable, allowing for changes in direction as new opportunities arise.

Reflection on 2025: Year of Fatherhood

• 👨‍👧 Myke became a dad to his daughter Sophia, making fatherhood his top priority and guiding principle for the year.
• 💼 To ensure financial security for his growing family, he took on new consultancy work with CrossForward Inc., makers of apps like Pedometer Plus+ and Widgetsmith.
• ⏰ He adapted his work schedule, condensing it into 3-4 days a week to spend more time at home, though this led to less unstructured creative time.
• 📱 Establishing boundaries between work and personal life was key, including using a separate work phone to manage work apps and testing.
• 🏃‍♂️ While focusing on financial responsibility, health and fitness goals, particularly diet, proved challenging due to the demands of a new baby.

Introducing the 2026 Theme: The Year of New

• ✨ The 2026 theme is "The Year of New", focusing on personal, creative, and professional reinvention.
• 🚀 This theme is driven by new opportunities in marketing work with CrossForward, learning to start from scratch in a new business context.
• 🎙️ It also involves exploring new avenues for creativity and professional life, including taking on more responsibility with the Cortex podcast during Grey's absence.
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Myke aims to find new ways to be a better father and husband, adapting his working arrangements and potentially delegating responsibilities.

Embracing New Behaviors and Attitudes

• 🧘‍♀️ The theme encourages developing new behaviors, such as being calmer, less worried, and more thoughtful in reactions, especially with an infant.
• ✅ A new attitude involves prioritizing family needs and being present in the moment, even during tedious tasks, to foster intentionality and support his wife.
• 🤝 Building and maintaining relationships and friendships is a focus, with efforts to reach out more and respond quicker to communications.
• ✍️ New ways of sharing include writing weekly articles for his blog, The Enthusiast.net, and sharing more photos through low-effort carousels.
• 🚀 The overarching goal for 2026 is to formalize changes, embrace new opportunities, and push forward with a sense of excitement and intentionality.