Well, a very happy New Year to everybody reading this email. I just had a great workout. Writing to you from a rainy day in LA.
I trust you are on top of your fitness too to star the year, at least.
I'd like to apologize for my sudden disappearance from the emails - even after promising I would finish my 100-day challenge over email… But yet - I actually haven’t really stopped posting daily - I just moved over to posting daily vlogs on instagram.
Chloe bought me a new retro camera for Christmas, and I started recording videos on it and kind of fell in love with the process of making daily videos again. I realized that this year, I just have this insane story i’m in just the start of, planning the 8AM Uluwatu experience, among other projects i’m working on. And I just have to document the journey via video.
And now it's the New Year.
I want to talk about the 1 New Year's resolution that matters…
Now for the past decade, as you know, I've experimented across every tradition and style of personal improvement. Read hundreds of books. Tested dozens of systems. Built multiple businesses around this problem.
And I’ve refined something special for you within the 8AM app.
As the new year unfolds, perhaps your first task is to think about what you’re going to do in the next 12 months. Who are you going to be?
I’ve created the 8AM app for you - It's simple. It's battle-tested. And it works better than anything else I've found for getting clear on your purpose.
If you want to take control of your life in 2026, go to 8AMapp.com right now and get the first week for $1 using code 888.
So what is the ONE resolution that matters?
Well - first we have to look at the horrifying landscape of 2026…
The distractions to our destiny haven't changed much in appearance… It’s still the same glowing screens, endless scroll, and same little dopamine hits. But beneath the familiar surface, something has actually shifted. The algorithms have learned at a rate and are learning at a rare you can’t possibly comprehend.
They've gotten better at their work, which is to say, better at mastering us.
And so though the distractions look the same, in fact, they have become infinitely more dangerous and will continue to rise in power.
The machinery at this very moment knows exactly how to hold you. They hold you through an almost eerily tender understanding of your weaknesses, your patterns, your midnight longings. It holds your attention. Your attention is the only thing you actually possess. Money, status, even love can be taken from you. Attention, Consciousness, your connection to God... is yours, until it isn’t.
When we lose our attention, we lose our ability to align ourselves to God, to anything resembling meaning. We lose everything, really, though it happens so gradually in 2026 that we hardly notice.
Will you wake up from this dream of total loss of the only thing you’ll ever own?
The truth is this: if we don't intervene – if we don’t contemplate what we are actually meant to contribute to the world, and develop a system to control our minds – we will drift into unconscious oblivion. Purgatory. Hell.
Not in dramatic fashion like Dante’s inferno, but quietly, comfortably, even…
Sedated.
The machines will wrapp around us like an anaconda, and slowly put us to leep.
Right now, there are several camps of people reading this:
Camp 1: Some of you know exactly what you're supposed to be doing in life, but you don't have a very clear vision of it.
And even if you do, your brain has been hijacked by the machines. The anacaonda is around your legs, beginning to squeeze.
You open your instagram account, your TikTok, and you've just lost hours and hours of your attention instead of pouring into your purpose.
Camp 2: Another percentage of you are totally unclear about your vision. About who you’re supposed to be.
You're maybe pursuing some goals loosely, but you just know at your core – and perhaps you're aware of it every day – that it's simply not your goals.
It’s not your life that you’re meant to live. It’s what someone else wants whether that’s a parent, spouse, 1984 style government, social media corporation, or Rogue ai algorithm.
You simply know you’re not doing what you're meant to be doing.
Camp 3: Some of you reading this might even be doing what you're supposed to be doing on Earth.
You're doing your God-given mission, the mission implanted on you that only you are here to create.
But yet you're still unfulfilled. Anxious.
You're still unhappy.
The 8AM app is designed to solve every single one of these problems.
A) Clarity of your life’s purpose
Get crystal clear on what you're supposed to be doing with your life.
B) Control over your attention
Intervene at the subconscious level to control your focus. Create actionable plans using the 80/20 rule, and only focus on what matters. Stop getting distracted and bogged down by social media and all the noise everywhere else.
C) Connection to peace
Battle-tested meditations that have completely changed my life and brought me peace.
Even when I look back on my life at the times where I was really fulfilling my purpose and achieving results and making money, and I was still unhappy, these meditations were the missing link.
They connect you with the ultimate transcendent source of life in the universe itself, which is God, or whatever it is that you want to call it.
So - The only New Year's resolution that matters is to take control of your mind.
Go to 8AMapp.com right now.
Get the first week for just a dollar.
Get crystal clear on your life purpose.
Take control of your mind.
2026 is yours.
Let's go!
–Arlin
P.S. Once you download the app on your phone and add www.8amPlanner.com to your bookmarks bar, I want you to very simply watch the video on the homepage of the app. There is a brand new video I made fresh for 2026 where I walk you through how to create the time blocks necessary to create the vision, So go do that now.
And then make sure you tag me on Instagram—post on your Instagram story that you're using the tool and share it with a friend, share it with a family member, share it with your team. This works really well for sales teams.
So go ahead and try it. 2026 - Why not you?
8AMapp.com / Code: 88
The only New Year's resolution that matters.
PPS - my latest YouTube video…
