Most people are searching outside of themselves for everything.Medicine. Goals. Inspiration. Motivation. Education. Confidence. Permission. We have been trained to believe the answer is always 'out there'. Another book. Another course. Another expert. Another hack. And yes, learning matters. Support matters. Mentoring matters. But there is a big difference between learning to expand, and learning because you do not trust yourself to decide. Here is the truth most people avoid. You were born with more wiring than you give yourself credit for. Instinct. Intuition. Pattern recognition. Resilience. A built in compass that knows when something is off, and knows when something is aligned. Look at nature: Sea turtles are buried under sand by a mother they will never meet again. No tutorial. No hand holding. No motivational podcast. Yet when the time comes, they know to dig up. They know to head straight for the sea. They know to swim. They know to survive. Then years later, they return to the same beach to do it again. Call it instinct. Call it design. Call it nature. But it proves something important. The direction was already in them. Humans are no different. You do not need to outsource every decision. You do not need to wait for the perfect strategy before you start. You do not need to collect information until you feel safe. You need to choose a direction. Then get the right input. Not the other way round. Because if you keep expecting life to be delivered to you from the outside, you will spend your entire life consuming and never creating. So here is a simple rule for 2026. Go inward first. Decide who you want to be. Decide what you want. Decide what matters. Then get advice to support the path you have chosen, not to replace your responsibility to choose it. Stop searching for a saviour. Start trusting your compass. You have more in you than you have been taught to believe.

Stephen Covey said something that rewired my brain: "The enemy of the best is the good." Read that again. The enemy of the BEST is the GOOD. Not the bad. The good. Because we reject bad. Obviously. But we accept good. We settle for good. And in doing so, we block the best. Your education was good. It taught you to read, write, calculate. But did it teach you to think? To question? To see patterns? Or did it teach you to memorise, perform, and comply? Good. Not best. Your job is good. It pays the bills. Gives you security. But does it use your actual talents? Does it make you feel alive? Or does it just keep you busy enough not to think too hard? Good. Not best. We're surrounded by "good enough. " And because it's good, we don't question it. We don't reach for better. We don't create space for best. The problem? You can't add to an already full vessel without making a mess. If your life is full of "good," there's no room for "best." What "good" thing in your life is blocking your "best"?

I want to start with a question. And I need you to answer honestly, even if it sounds weird. Do you ever feel incomplete? Not broken. Not damaged. Not depressed. Just... incomplete. Like there's a piece missing. Or maybe not missing. Maybe covered over. Buried. Forgotten. You've done everything "right. " Got the education. Got the business. Got the job. Got the relationship (or trying). Made money. Achieved things. But there's still this sense that something's not quite there. And you can't name it. Can't point to it. Can't explain it to anyone else because they'd think you're ungrateful or confused or having a crisis. But it's there. Quiet. Persistent. This feeling that says: "There's more. You're more. You've just forgotten." Do you feel it? Drop a comment. Even if it's just "yes. " I want to know if I'm alone in this or if this feeling ismore common than we admit.

Think back to when you were a kid. 6, 7, 8 years old. You asked "why" constantly. Why is the sky blue? Why do we have to go to school? Why can't I do it my way? Why, why, why. And at some point, someone shut you down. "Stop asking so many questions." "Just do as you're told." "That's not how things work." "You'll understand when you're older." Except you got older. And you still don't understand. You just stopped asking. I remember the exact moment I learned that curiosity was dangerous. I was 11. Asked my teacher why we had to memorise dates instead of understanding patterns. She said, "Because that's what's on the exam. If you want to pass, you learn what I teach you." That's when I learned: Questions make you a problem. Compliance makes you successful. When did YOU stop asking why? What question did you ask that got you shut down? Drop it in the comments. Let's remember what we were curious about before we learned not to be.