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.

Most people start the year with noise. - Goals. - Plans. - Resolutions. The Remembering starts somewhere else. Silence. Silence is not doing nothing. Silence is stopping the world from deciding for you. If you do not pause before the year begins, you will spend it reacting. Before action comes breath. Before direction comes stillness. Ask this instead today: What needs to become quiet before the right direction becomes obvious? More on this in The Remembering. Coming soon.

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.