I want to say thank you to Kyle and his 5 day workshop in December, my big takeaway was Prop firms and the possibility and I have successfully passed my 1st evaluation for 25K. Now I really need to get to work and learn how not to blow it up. Thank You Kyle! ******Thank You all for your responses also, this an amazing group. It goes to show that it starts from the top down. And FYI I have not destroyed my funded account as of today. *****

To kick off the New Year I've got a Monday Money Tips post that encourages you to include a "Fun" Line Item in your budget this year! Check it out the post HERE in the Classroom. Feel free to leave questions and comments below.

The Year in One Sentence… “2025 was the year markets rewarded adaptability — and punished anyone who assumed the old playbook still worked.” If you were flexible, selective, and patient → you probably did well. If you chased narratives without respecting price → the market reminded you who’s in charge. ✅ 2025 Market Recap (The Big Picture) Stocks - Large-cap tech and AI-linked names dominated headlines again — but this year came with more pullbacks, more skepticism, and more “prove it” moments. - Indexes finished strong overall, but returns were uneven. A few names did the heavy lifting. Many stocks went nowhere. 💡 Key lesson: Indexes going up ≠ most people making money. Crypto - Bitcoin spent much of the year consolidating, frustrating both bulls and bears. - Institutional interest quietly increased, even while price action stayed boring. 💡Key lesson: Boring accumulation phases are where future volatility is born. ✅ What Actually Mattered in 2025 (Not the Noise) 🤖 AI Grew Up 2025 was the year AI stopped being a buzzword and started being a business conversation. Markets moved from “AI will change everything” to: ➡️ Who’s profitable? Who’s spending too much? Who actually wins? Why this matters: The easy money phase is over. The selective money phase has begun. 🏦 The Fed Lost Its Scare Power Rates still mattered — but they didn’t dominate every single week like prior years. Markets learned to live with uncertainty instead of waiting for perfect clarity. Why this matters: The market doesn’t need certainty to move. It needs direction. 💰 Liquidity Was the Real Driver When liquidity expanded → risk assets breathed. When liquidity tightened → volatility snapped back fast. Why this matters: Narratives follow liquidity. Always. ✅ The Biggest Mistakes Traders Made in 2025 ❌ Overtrading chop So many accounts died not from big losses — but from death by boredom. ❌ Confusing conviction with stubbornness Holding losers “because the thesis is right” was expensive.

When you finally step up to the plate of your own life, there’s this moment — this crossroads — where you either stay in the cage you built for yourself or you walk into the unknown and find out what you’re really made of. And for a lot of people, that cage looks comfortable. It feels familiar. It doesn’t challenge you. It doesn’t stretch you. It doesn’t ask you to risk anything. It’s the routine. The job you hate but tolerate. The relationship you outgrew. The habits that keep you numb. The excuses that keep you predictable. And here’s the brutal truth nobody wants to say out loud: Your comfort zone isn’t comfort. It’s decay dressed up as safety. It’s a slow death. A quiet, passive way of saying, “I’m afraid to see what else I could be.” And I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but it’s time to bury that version of you. Let that comfort zone rest in peace. Because everything you actually want — the growth, the clarity, the strength, the discipline, the breakthrough — none of it happens in the place where nothing changes. Nothing new grows in soil that’s never turned over. Nothing powerful is built without friction. You don’t get stronger lifting feathers. You don’t evolve repeating last year’s patterns. You don’t discover who you are by staying who you’ve always been. The moment you decide, “I’m done being limited by my own fear,” everything shifts. You start walking into rooms that used to intimidate you. You start taking risks your old self would’ve run from. You start speaking up, standing tall, trusting your gut, and moving with a confidence you didn’t even know you had. And yeah — it’s uncomfortable. Growth always is. But discomfort is the doorway. Fear is the signal. Resistance is the compass. So whatever comfort zone has been keeping you small… let it go. Let it die. Let it rest. A new version of you is on the other side of discomfort — the version that finally steps into their potential instead of fantasizing about it. Time to rise. — j. anthony | @TheSoberSessions

All of you that have been attending the LIVE workshop this week aren’t real. You must be some of AI robots or something. Cmon people…I’m trying to help ya here, but you have to be open to being helped.