Why Accountability, Substack, and Live Shopping Are the Keys to Winning 2026

I have bad news for everyone. All the excuses have been eliminated. Whatever you tell me, I'm like, Chat, GPT. Information is completely commoditized. It's free. Everyone has it. And the only thing left is accountability. Are you in a place where you're gonna blame everybody? Or do you realize that 100% of your happiness and 100% of your unhappiness is 100% your fault? This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. Aspire Fort Lauderdale. Get up out of your seats. Make some noise for Gary Vaynerchuk. Okay, Gary. We go. We got a brand new year, twenty twenty six January. You got room full of entrepreneurs and so forth. Do you do you get into, vision boarding, planning out your year? What's your goals? Do you do any of that type of stuff in in a in a normal basis? Historically, I'm not super passionate about a New Year's resolution or things of that nature. I think that a lot of you come to an event like this, or make a vision board, or make a list, and you're tricking yourself that you did something. And and this is an important point, and it's a funny way to start, but, you know, I love events. I speak at them, I go to them, but I'm always scared that people that go to events, make vision boards, make a New Year's resolution, are getting tricked that that was the action. You go here to start the next the thing you do when you leave is the game. And so historically, no. But I'm sure you're asking that question because you got a very different version of me backstage right now than you're accustomed to. I'm like in psycho mode. Like in all the times I've ever seen him, he's in a running at a different level right now. Yeah. I I literally called my brother an hour ago because we had a scheduled meeting. And before we even started the meeting, before I even said hi to him and that I love him because that's usually how we start our calls, I literally asked him what season was Jerry Rice's, he was the best wide receiver in football history, what was his best season? And he's like, what the fuck are you talking about? He's like, and he looked it up. He's like, 95. And he gave me the stats, and I'm like, I have a weird feeling that 2026 is gonna be my greatest season as an entrepreneur. And the reason I like, I literally told Andrew, I'm like, I weirdly think I might have accomplished more in 2026 already than in 2025, and I'm not bullshitting you. Obviously not in volume. We're four seconds in. But I had some downtime during the holidays and got you know, we all know this. You get clear sometimes. I did it with my health and wellness. You look back at some old, you know, pre two that were we in pre two …