2026 Is Your Year And I'm Here To Help
Cipherline - Open Edition - Week 4, 2026
This is exciting
As this year gets underway, I want to pause for a moment and acknowledge what last year actually was, because it’s easy to miss it while looking ahead.
Last year wasn’t about noise or scale. It was about laying foundations that would hold under real life. Quiet work, structural work, thinking work. For Decode Your Diagnosis it was the kind that doesn’t look impressive from the outside but changes everything once people start walking on it.
Decode Your Diagnosis took shape not just as a book, but as a way of thinking.
The Alignment Codex matured
The Pathway was clarified (working on book 2 right now)
The Titan identity stopped being an idea and became something people recognised in themselves
The comments I got from readers of my debut book, and subscribers to my socials, were so uplifting and reaffirmed my desire to restore agency and purpose to every life touched by chronic illness.
Let’s face it, chronic illness touches a clear majority of adults, and indirectly affects large shares of caregivers, clinicians, and employers. I’ve tried to quantify it but no single study gives one combined “percentage of all adults impacted.”
From my research (I use Consensus.AI), I can tell you how many adults live with chronic conditions:
60% of adults have at least one chronic disease and 42% have multiple, globally even thought this figure relates to the US specifically, Australia is even worse.
Using a broader list of 12 conditions, 2023 survey data estimate 76.4% of US adults have ≥1 chronic condition and 51.4% have multiple.
For a specific symptom domain, about 20–21% of adults report chronic pain, and 7–8% have “high‑impact” pain that limits life or work.
Globally, approximately one in three adults have multiple chronic conditions (hello, in my family it’s 1 in two).
Most importantly, many of you proved something to yourselves:
That life with a diagnosis doesn’t have to shrink, it can stabilise, it can adapt, and, over time, it can expand again.
That matters because it changes what this year is about for Formula For Life and the Decode Your Diagnosis content ecosystem.
This year isn’t about explaining the philosophy again, it’s about living it together.
Over the months ahead, you’ll see a deliberate shift toward Titan engagement and shared momentum. More connection, more practical exchanges and more opportunities to test ideas, compare notes, and support each other through real decisions, not abstract theory.
Some of that will happen quietly, some of it will be visible and I can assure you, all of it is designed to reduce isolation and decision fatigue, not add to it.
The intent is simple: no one here should feel like they’re navigating alone, or reinventing the wheel under pressure.
There’s a deeper thread running through this as well, even if I don’t often name it outright.
Too many lives become organised around a diagnosis. Schedules, identities, futures all slowly shaped by what’s “not possible anymore.” What we’re building, here with you, pushes back against that drift. Not with bravado or denial, but with clarity, alignment, and steady forward motion.
To achieve this goal I need your help, please choose one of the topics below and I’ll run the winner as a live Webinar in February.
The long game is restoring agency and purpose, not someday, but in the middle of real constraints, at work, at home in bodies that don’t always cooperate.
That’s the year ahead in 2026 for Decode Your Diagnosis.
Less explanation
More engagement
Fewer spectators
More Titans in motion
I’m glad you’re here for it and now I would like your vote on what you would like to engage in first. Please take a second to choose one and let’s get started.
Sincerely,
Paul Cobbin
Author - Decode your Diagnosis
Sounds exciting, Paul. I’m sure it will be enlightening for us all!