This is NOT a gentle easing you into the New Year message!

I want it to be the biggest kick up the **** you’re going to get this year.

When we hit 1st January, all the messages I saw on social media, or conversations I had, went along the lines of: “thank god that year’s over” ... “good riddance 2025!”.

But do you know what? It was just another day.

Too many are still relying on hope.Hope isn’t a great strategy; it’s the worst strategy on the planet.

If you haven’t made the decision to do something differently, and planned what that’s going to look like, just go and buy a lottery ticket because that’s the best chance you’ve got of having a great 2026!

If this resonates with you, then why?

Every year you might say: “I’m going to have a great year”.

And at the end of every single year, you say: “I didn’t have”.

Are you just repeating year, after year, after year...?

If this year, you’ve decided NOT to repeat the same year over and over and over again, then what’s going to change?

Because absolutely nothing will do, unless you do.

It’ll, soon be February, and then Easter, suddenly you’re into Summer, and the year would have got away...

And nothing changes unless you do.

This could be your year.

IF you really want it...

IF you do something about it...

Tough love (you know me), but now is the time to hold up the mirror and if this resonates, then why?

Knowing something but not doing anything about it, is like not knowing at all.

BW,

Martin

Martin Norbury

Investor | Business Mentor at Advocate | Author of I don’t work Fridays