We’re 12 days into 2026, feels a bit late but happy new year to you.

Feels great to be back. I took the last few weeks exiting 2025 with lessons and entering 2026 with a fresh outlook on everything.

I’m coming back with three fresh takeaways I want to share with you.

First — reflecting too much is a mask for overthinking and keeps you in the past.

Naturally I’m a very retrospective thinker, I like to learn and analyze from the past in order to make wiser moves in the present and future.

Sounds pretty logical. Except I developed a habit of overdoing it.

Every weekend I’d carve out time to think, reflect, journal, and plan.

I didn’t realize how exhausting and mentally taxing that is. At some point you have to trust that you are mature, and wise enough from all this reflecting to where you can be confident to operate in the world and let your human instincts do it’s thing.

Second — I’ve come to a strong conclusion everyone needs to have one thing they invest in or build for the next 5-10 years without giving it up when things get challenging.

That can be a youtube channel, stock trading, building. a skillset, business idea, etc.

Pretty much most people I know, including myself aren’t sticking to anything for more than 2-3 years at a time.

With the abundance of opportunity, information, and technology there is… it’s too easy to say “I’m not feeling this anymore, let’s burn it down and move on to the next thing”.

If you’re ambitious and have the capacity to be involved in multiple things at the same time, great, but don’t let that be the reason why there isn’t at least one thing you continue to push through with regardless of “feels” and “energy”.

Third — I’m leaving my past where it belongs… in the past.

2 years ago I decided to talk away from a business I co-founded and scaled to 7-figures. Everything that 19 year old me dreamed of 10 years ago came true by about 85%.

I built the business. Took massive risk. Saw massive rewards. Had the team. Several hundreds of clients. Built 2 more businesses to make sure it wasn’t luck.

But now that feels like a lifetime ago. I’m no longer the same person. I don’t share that same vision as myself from 10 years ago. My values and priorities are drastically different.

The struggle I had with leaving the past in the past is that my network and peers within entrepreneurship knew me as THAT person. I kept letting people tie my entire identity and worth to that season.

Conversations and relationships all based on where I was and not where I’m going.

I’ve accepted that whatever I do now and in the future may not interest or be of value to those people who’ve been around for the last few years — and that’s okay.

I’ve become a big believe in not revealing all your goals or the specifics of your goals to people. The only person I share that with is my wife.

But I’ll pull back the curtains to give you some insight on what I’m focused on this year.

I’m at a stage where I’m not chasing revenue goals or actively scaling a business.

This is pretty much laying the foundation for the next 4-8 years. Whatever does get generated this year is being 100% re-invested.

It’s kind of weird not seeing anything tied to growing a consulting business on that list. But getting into M&A has changed the game for me.

I’m building with margin.

My wife and I decided that we’re going to work out of a different spot once a week across Vegas.