Focusing your energy on making the most of the last 100 days of the year, and directing that energy toward the goals that matter most to you, is an amazing way to express gratitude and refuse to give up on any year.

Whether it has been incredible so far, underwhelming, filled with unexpected challenges, or has simply felt like a waste, there is still time to change how it ends.

By September, many people feel like the year has slipped away from them. They feel like there is not much time left, that the year is basically over, and that they can no longer make a meaningful difference or reach the goals they hoped to accomplish.

That is not true.

Around mid-September, there are still 100 days left in the year. That is a massive amount of time, almost a third of the entire year.

You have 2,400 hours to work with. If you choose a clear focus and dedicate time to it every single day for the final 100 days, you can make unbelievable progress.

A huge bonus is that when you give your all for the last 100 days of the year, you build powerful momentum. Positive, focused, consistent energy moving in the direction of a goal.

An object in motion remains in motion unless acted upon by an external force. The greater its momentum, the greater the impulse required to stop it. That is physics, through Newton’s First Law, momentum, and kinetic energy.

The same idea is useful when thinking about your own actions. When you give your best effort every day toward your goals for 100 straight days, you build a massive amount of momentum in that direction. Your habits, attention, routines, environment, and mindset all begin moving with you.

That momentum carries with you directly into the new year.

Everyone has New Year’s goals. Everyone wants to do better, start fresh, make a change, or take advantage of the clean slate feeling when a new year begins.

Now think about how much easier that fresh start becomes when you do not begin from zero.

Instead, you enter the new year with 100 days of consistent focus, discipline, and progress already behind you.

If you do not have a clear goal yet, try this exercise to better understand yourself: who you are, what you want, and where you might want to focus for the last 100 days of 2026.

Your goal does not have to be monumental. It does not have to determine the direction of your entire life. It can be almost anything.

It is best when it is aligned with who you want to become, what you genuinely want, or who you believe you really are.

You can see my challenge for the last 100 days of 2026 and follow along if you would like.

You can also see what I did during the last 100 days of 2025 below, and how the momentum from that challenge carried with me into the new, and current, year of 2026.

• Exercise sheet Ikigai What you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, what you can be paid for. About 30 minutes. Open PDF
• Exercise sheet 1, 2, 5, 10 year vision Foundations, momentum, expansion, legacy. Follows on from your Ikigai statement. Open PDF

For the last 100 days of 2025, my two main goals were to sleep on the floor every night, with no mattress, and post every single day on my social media accounts.

What is the point of sleeping on the floor? How is that even a useful goal?

1. Giving up your bed for 100 days, during your senior year at university, is a challenge for many more reasons than simply being uncomfortable. If you grew up in the West, it is probably the longest, and maybe the only, period of your life you have intentionally slept on the floor.
2. Sleeping on the floor, if done correctly, can actually be great for your back.
3. I study, work remotely 30 hours a week for Coinbase, work on my own business ideas, and sleep all in the same room. When there is a bed sitting a few feet away, it is easy to convince yourself that you are tired, deserve a break, or can just take a 30-minute nap. With no bed, that temptation disappears.
4. I never sleep in. When I wake up, it is time to get up, because I do not want to stay on the floor any longer. Sleeping on the floor makes it much easier to get up immediately and go after whatever I have planned for the day. There is no comfortable option to stay half asleep in a dreamy state, buried in a comfortable bed.
5. There is also the mental barrier of, “What will people think of me if I start sleeping on the floor and post it online?” Choosing to do something unusual, and then publicly committing to it, forces you to get past that fear.

My other goals, which were already in place but certainly not any less important, were to do excellent work at Coinbase, strengthen my posterior chain and legs, pass my classes, continue building my businesses, and grow my personal brand.

If you do not know where to start with your own goals, try this 30-minute Ikigai exercise. It may help you better understand where you actually want to focus your time and energy.