How to Successfully Implement Your 2026 Goals

In this episode, we dig into the hardest part of building wealth through Australian real estate: implementation. Not goal setting or motivation, but the consistent daily actions that turn long-term plans into real results.

Casey shares a candid look at the year ahead for the podcast, why upgrading the studio matters, and how we’re bringing more experienced investors, property professionals, and real clients onto the show to unpack what’s actually working in the market right now.

We confront the biggest blockers holding investors back, including fear of a property market crash, noisy media headlines, and advice from people who don’t actively invest. You’ll hear why waiting on the sidelines can cost hundreds of thousands in missed equity, how that delay can prevent you from buying your next one or two properties, and why long-term success in property comes from structure - not hype.

Casey outlines his own roadmap, from dual-occupancy builds to manufacture equity, lining up finance, purchases, and balancing investing with family, health, and rest.

If you’re serious about Australian property investment, portfolio growth, and long-term financial freedom, this episode is your blueprint.

Chapters

• 0:00 Why Goals Fail Without Action
• 0:40 New Studio And Format Upgrades
• 1:45 Education First And Audience Input
• 2:17 Fear, Noise, And Market Myths
• 3:42 The Cost Of Delayed Action
• 4:16 Three Anchors For Real Goals
• 6:02 Daily Habits Over Motivation
• 7:03 Reverse Engineer The Big Goal
• 9:01 Property Goals: Dual-Occ Builds
• 10:13 Funding, Equity, And New Buys
• 11:20 Time, Tradeoffs, And Making Space
• 12:07 Personal Goals: Rest, Boxing, Alcohol
• 13:12 Podcast Goals And Guest Requests
• 14:07 Sacrifice, Consistency, And Closing

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:00

How to successfully implement your 2026 goals. My name is Casey Taylor. I'm the host of the Tailored Property Wealth podcast. And with it being the first recording of 2026 for us, I thought it'd be a good episode to get into talking about goals and goal setting, but actually putting those goals into achievements through taking action. It's super important. Everyone has goals, but not everyone implements them and makes them happen. And that is the real needle mover. So it's an important topic. And start of the year, new year, new me, people doing all sorts of stuff. Um, it it's a good one just to get into today. I think if you've got long-term goals, new year or not, it really shouldn't change too much because you should be consistently moving towards those goals. And year to year, they shouldn't change too much. If you've been watching this episode prior, you'll notice that this studio is looking a bit different. We've moved offices, we have a dedicated content space now. So our content is going to be really enhanced, and we're taking it to the next level this year. That's going to mean more consistent guests on the podcast as well as TPW clients as well, talking about their journey, their experience working with us, and just seeing what is possible, what our clients achieve as well. If they can do it, you can do it. If I can do it, you can do it. So that's that's something we're going to be doing this year for the podcast. If there's guests that you want to get on, you want to see on the podcast, see us pick their brain, get experiences from them, let us know. If there's an episode or a topic that you want us to talk about, let us know as well. Because we are here to be able to help educate you further around property investing so you can go out there and make more educated decisions yourself because we can't work with everyone. We are boutique, we choose who we work with. However, if we can continue to add value back to the viewers, to the listeners, that's important to us. Let's get into goal setting. Like I said, people can create goals, but actually putting that into reality is a very different thing. I speak to people all the time as prospects. They want to invest in property. They want to dramatically change their future. They don't want to have to work until the age of 65. But when push comes to shove, they do not take action. They act in fear. They think the market's going to drop. They listen to their drunk uncle at the barbecue who is a property guru, has never purchased an investment property in their life, but interest rates are going up, don't buy. Property's going to crash, don't buy. There's many things that people get in their head and they don't take action. But the reality is that two, three years go by and property prices increase so much, you have to go out and borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars more for the same asset. And then you have to pay hundreds of thousands more for the same asset. And if you'd just take an action two, three years prior, you'd have enough equity to pull into another property or two properties. So that action and not proceeding years ago can actually stop you from achieving multiple properties. And that's what people don't understand. It's that action that really gets people towards those goals. You can talk and talk and talk, but until you actually put that into action, you're not going to achieve your goals. Okay. And we're going to go through a couple of topics on what helps you stay accountable, what helps you continue to work towards those goals. That's going to be important to hold yourself accountable, to make sure that those goals become achievements and become reality. And the first thing we're talking about today is what problem am I trying to solve in my life? There has to be a problem, and that's why it is a goal. It could be as simple as you want to lose weight and you want to get healthier. It could be you want financial freedom. You're sick of working a job you hate, going there every single week, stuck in traffic, and the reality is you've got to do it until the age of 65. It could be simply that you want to be more comfortable financially. You might want to save 10 grand this year as a safety net, whereas you've been living week to week. That is a problem in your life, and you want to be able to create a solution and get and get better structured in that area of your life. You also want to understand who you are doing it for. Simply could be yourself benefiting you. It could be your family, it could be your parents, it could be your kids, or it could be your friends. It could be any number of those things. But who is it for? That's going to give you true purpose towards those goals, and it's going to help you stay accountable. It's going to help you consistently work towards those goals. Number three is what are you doing it for? It could be generational wealth. It could be more presence with your kids, more time with your kids, more freedom with your kids, parents, friends, whatever it is. Or it could be being healthier, having a better lifestyle outside of when you do work, so you can do more enjoyable things. Whatever it is, it's super important as well to understand. You need to focus on these three things, and you need to check in with these on a regular basis. If the goal is a 12-month goal, it's a two-year goal, a 10-year goal, these are things you need to check in with daily or weekly or monthly so that you can continue to move towards those long-term goals. It's going to help you stay accountable, stay on track, and consistently actioning daily habits towards those goals. One of my TAFE teachers many years ago helped me with that goal setting and said, write your goals on the wall, look at them every single day. Because it's going to stay in your mind. It's going to keep you accountable and know what you're working towards. It might work for you, it might not, but that's something that really helped me. And every year since then, I really have focused on doing that. What are my goals? Write them down, review them so I know that I'm on track and working towards those goals. It's easy with life to start to forget about them or move off track. But this is what you must do to be able to change your future from what you're doing today. That is the reality. And the daily habits are so important because that's going to mean your consistent daily over motivation, where someone can be motivated for 60, 90 days. They get in shape, they get shredded, and then they just fall off the wagon back into the same patterns. That's not what you want to do. You want to create daily structure, daily actions that are going to continue to help you move towards that for 12 months, for two years, for a decade, especially when we're talking property investing. You're not going to get rich overnight. It's going to be a grind for 10 years to be able to dramatically change your future. Okay. Reverse engineer those goals. So if you have one big goal, it might seem scary, it might seem daunting, but if you can then break that down into monthly goals, weekly goals, daily goals, it's a lot easier to just implement those daily or weekly goals and know that if you can just hit these goals, it's going to compound over time over that year to get that larger goal. That is super important. And it just breaks it down. It makes it easy to hit consistently. Not every day is going to be perfect, but if majority of days can be hitting that towards the long-term goal, it's still going to get you there. Unfortunately, everything isn't in a straight line. Sometimes you're going to go nowhere for a period of time or you're going to go backwards a little bit. But then what it is important to do is continue to move forward towards that. That's something that you need to be able to implement, whether it's fixing something health-related, something wealth-related, it is important. What I'll do now is go through some of my property goals, some of my personal goals. My property goals this year are to complete three dual lock builds on existing established properties that I have in the portfolio. This will be getting construction loan, building a new dwelling on a large site, which we can then strata title, create a massive amount of equity, and manufacture that equity within the portfolio that I can then leverage as deposits on further properties in the portfolio. So that is one of my big ones this year. It's going to grow the portfolio value substantially. It's going to create net wealth within the portfolio as well. The second thing is to purchase a couple more established properties within the portfolio that will be new properties to the portfolio. I've got some business goals that will take preference over these new properties, and that is because it will help the portfolio long term. However, I still want to be able to try and achieve those couple of purchases in the portfolio as well. At the moment, I'm there's a valuation booked in today to get the dual lock sorted and built on one of the properties, and then I've got a pre-approval already in place for one of those established properties as well. So again, this was something that I was working on last year to leverage into this year to set myself up for success. This is where I see people say, I don't have time. I don't have this, I don't have that. You have to make time. Everyone wants to make excuses, but you need to make the time. Run a business, I have kids, I have twins that are young. Outside of work, it is hard to be able to do these things, but it might mean getting up early, it might mean staying up late to complete some of these things to get you towards those goals. So, how are you going to be able to do this? You've got to find a solution. Couple of personal goals for me is getting a little bit more balance in my life and taking three weeks of holidays this year. I haven't done this in the past. Sometimes I burn myself out, little bits and pieces. So that is a goal that I want to have moving forward. And that is important to be able to just operate at a high level within the business to serve our clients. So that is something I need to focus on and improve on. And with growing the team, that is going to be able to happen. I also want to have a couple of boxing fights this year. That's something I'm working towards at the moment. So we'll we'll see how that one goes. Time will be very challenging with this one because training needs to happen typically of an afternoon when I'm home after finishing work with the kids. The next one is alcohol for special occasions only. And you might know that I haven't drank any alcohol for two years. This year, one of my friends is getting married, they're gonna have a box. So it's kind of a life special occasion, and we'll probably look to drink for that. Not 100% sure if I will. I know that I'll regret it if I do, but that's something that I've got there to set the expectation as the goal this year. Goals for the podcast as well, just to touch on. We want to get on quality guests consistently moving forward in the podcast. And we want to really just enhance this and add even more value to you guys who are listening. So if there's a guest you want to see, as I mentioned earlier, if there's a subject that you want to see or listen to, please let us know. DMS, comment, whatever it is, let us know because we will make sure that we implement upon that this year. We just want to be able to educate and help you guys around anything finance related, anything property investment related or property related in general. So please let us know. That's pretty much it for today. It's going to be important to move towards your goals that you've set for 2026, whatever they are. Write them down, action them on a daily basis, and just don't make excuses for not achieving those goals. Many people want to make excuses, but you have to continuously chip away at these to get them. You might have to sacrifice time, you might have to sacrifice your discretionary spending, you might have to sacrifice your cash surplus if you're looking to purchase the investment property to make it work for you. It's going to come with sacrifice. It's going to come with sacrificing time, whatever it is. I hope this one has been valuable today, and we look forward to adding value this year, giving you the episodes you want to see, the guests that you want to see. So let us know what that looks like. Thanks for listening, and we'll see you on the next episode.