I am on the call with @Mike Greene @Godfrey Muneri @Scott Dwyer and we decided to do the Great Eastern Run on 11 October in Peterborough. Anyone else wants to join us???

1. You are not your past. Your past is data, not destiny. Stop dragging it into your mornings. Every new day is a reset if you use it. 2. Choose progress over perfection. Perfection is procrastination wearing a suit. Progress is courage in work boots. Move messy, but move. 3. Guard your energy like it is money. Because it is. Stop leaking it into drama, toxic people, and pointless arguments. Protect your peace like your future depends on it. It does. 4. Your thoughts are not the truth. They are suggestions. You decide what stays, what goes, and what gets fed. If you do not control your internal voice, you will rent your life to someone else’s noise. 5. Lead with courage, not comfort. Comfort is a beautiful prison. Courage is the exit door. Do the hard thing first. That is how you build a life you are proud of. 6. Discipline is devotion. Not punishment. Not willpower. Devotion. Daily actions that prove you believe in your future. Consistency turns potential into reality. If you want 2026 to be different, stop hoping. Start declaring. Start choosing. Start building. Your year will not change by accident. It will change by standards.

You may have noticed that I have removed 200 members from the community. We have gone from around 500 members to just below 300. That was intentional. - Most people believe growth only comes from adding. - More members. - More customers. - More followers. - More noise. That thinking is wrong. - Sometimes you have to shrink to grow. - Sometimes you have to squat to jump. Building the right network, just like building the right business, is not about volume. It is about alignment. A network is a two way street. A team is a two way street. People can contribute in different ways. - Experience. - Insight. - Energy. - Support. - Questions. - Activity and engagement - Action. But everyone must contribute something. Observer only participation dilutes standards. It slows momentum. It drains energy from those who are doing the work. It dilutes the performance of the whole As per my emails/posts before New Year I removed around 200 people. Not because they were bad people. But because they were passengers, not participants. Most founders are obsessed with keeping everyone. I am obsessed with building the right environment. Less noise. More depth. Less spectators. More builders. Trust me on this. The fastest way to grow... (and what helped me grow from zero to an 18000x return across 20+ countries) is often to cut first. So here is the question for you as we start a new year. Look at your own business/life. What needs to be cut? What should have been cut months ago? What are the anchors holding you back? And what are the propellers helping you move forward? Growth starts with honesty. And sometimes, with a purge... and in the words of Jim Collins: “The moment you feel the need to be liked is the moment you stop leading.”

Quick thought 🙏

You can’t scale without people. That’s the first brutal truth. Most business owners never grow past a basic salary because they try to do everything themselves. No leverage. No delegation. No team. The second brutal truth? The ones who do hire… Often hire badly. They keep poor performers. They tolerate unreliability. They excuse toxic behaviour. Persistent sickness, disengagement, or unreliability spreads fast. Toe. Foot. Leg. Life. Small issues grow into culture killers. Loyalty does not mean tolerance of behaviour that threatens the business. Your responsibility is to the business. To the clients. And to the wider team who show up and deliver every day. Winning teams only have the best players. If you want to grow, you must act early. Recruit well. Set standards. Protect the culture. Remove those who refuse to meet the level required. Scale demands people. Success demands the right people. Are you building a team that lifts your business… Or drains it?