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Five Questions to Make 2026 Your Best Year Ever
1. In 2025, what was a moment when you were truly “absorbed” in something—heart and soul?
2. Was there anything you let go of that made your heart feel lighter?
3. If you had to choose one lesson that only you gained from failure or hardship, what would it be?
4. When 2026 comes to an end, what kind of person do you want to be?
5. For your ideal 2026, what is one small step you can change starting January 1?
A way to avoid the worst-case outcome and transform anxiety into future possibility.
↓↓↓ Clarify the problem
I work in [00].
You are a top-tier strategic consultant who sees things through structure, not emotion.
Please analyze under the following conditions.
Premises
I’m continuing my current job with no major complaints.
But intuitively, I feel: “If I keep going like this, I’m going to hit a dead end.”
I’m not afraid of change—I’m afraid of misjudging the situation.
Questions
1. From a structural and long-term perspective (not emotional arguments), list three of the most fundamental reasons why “continuing my current job will eventually lead to failure.”
2. For each reason, clarify:
A problem that is hard to see now, but will inevitably surface in 5–10 years
The typical thinking patterns people use to avoid facing it (what they conveniently ignore)
3. Ruthlessly verbalize the kinds of excuses I’m likely using unconsciously—the “reasons I don’t have to change.”
4. Finally, if I continue this job, describe two concrete future scenarios:
The worst-case future scenario
The future scenario where quiet regret accumulates over time
Paint them as specific scenes, not abstractions.
* Please prioritize honesty over kindness.
↓↓↓ Solution
You are a calm, essential master coach who has achieved dramatic comebacks from rock bottom many times.
Right now, the assumptions that “things were going well” have collapsed,
and I clearly feel I’m in a worst-case situation—
that if I keep going, it will not end well.
Do not treat this as temporary failure or bad luck.
Treat it as an inevitable process
for my life to move into its next phase.
Please answer the following questions step by step.
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【STEP1｜Clearly Define the World that Has Ended】
1.Identify—without mercy—three ways of living, working, or self-definitions
that this worst-case situation is telling you: “Do not continue.” “This role has already ended.”
2. If you were to continue along those paths,
describe—through specific scenes—a future that appears stable on the surface
yet quietly declines beneath it.
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【STEP2｜Find the "Core" That Remains After Everything is Deleted】
3. Even if everything were taken away, what would still remain within you?
What you do even when no one evaluates you
What you think about even when it brings no money
What you feel compelled to talk about even when no one asks
Integrate these and articulate them
as the “operating system of your next life.”
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【STEP3｜Define the True Nature of the V-Shaped Recovery】
4.This V-shaped recovery is not about returning to the past.
So tell me:
What must you not reclaim?
What must you redefine entirely?
5. Clarify the shifts in awareness, perspective, and choice
that could never have occurred without this worst-case situation.
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【STEP4｜What to Do in the First Seven Days】
6. Without trying to produce immediate results, and without prioritizing outcomes, evaluation, or efficiency— present three small but certain actions to take in the first seven days for the sole purpose of reclaiming energy and agency.
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【STEP5｜Integration from the Future (Future Memory）】
7. Five years from now, having fully achieved a V-shaped recovery, your future self speaks to your present self:
“Everything began with that worst moment.”
From the perspective of your future self, quietly explain three reasons why this is true.
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Finally Give me one single core message that I should remember every morning from now on. Choose words that do not comfort—but trigger awakening.
🔍 Why This Prompt Works (Design Philosophy)
① Eliminating Escape Routes by Shifting from “Emotion” to “Structure”
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With phrases like
“I just feel uneasy” or “My motivation dropped,”
people can always justify themselves.
This prompt attacks through structure, time horizon, and causality,
leaving no place to hide.
② A Design That Destroys the Illusion of “I’m Fine for Now”
Problems that will inevitably surface in 5–10 years
Thought patterns that most people deliberately ignore
These elements are designed to
break the privilege of believing “I’ll be okay.”
③ The Most Powerful Part Is Question #3
“The excuses you use so you don’t have to change.”
This is where people realize:
“Oh—
the problem isn’t the job.
It’s my thinking habits.”
④ Ending with “Imagery” That Pierces
People don’t move through logic.
They move through future scenes.
That’s why the prompt asks for two visions:
The worst-case future
The future of quiet, accumulating regret
This is not to bind people with fear,
but to receive a warning from their future self.
🔥Tomabechi Theory × 10X — Follow-Up Prompt
How is continuing my current job actively putting the brakes
on my “outside-the-status-quo goal (W2)”—and in what specific ways?
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