Be honest: are you mentally ready for 2026 or still in sweatpants mode? 😂 Both are valid.

The Most Important Question of Your Life Written By Mark Manson Everybody wants what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money, and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when you walk into the room. Everyone would like that—it’s easy to like that. If I ask you, “What do you want out of life?” and you say something like, “I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,” it’s so ubiquitous it doesn’t even mean anything. A more interesting question—a question that perhaps you’ve never considered before—is what pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out. What pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Everybody wants to have an amazing job and financial independence—but not everyone wants to suffer through 60-hour work weeks, long commutes, and obnoxious paperwork, to navigate arbitrary corporate hierarchies and the blasé confines of an infinite cubicle hell. People want to be rich without the risk, without the sacrifice, without the delayed gratification necessary to accumulate wealth. Everybody wants to have great sex and an awesome relationship—but not everyone is willing to go through tough conversations, the awkward silences, the hurt feelings, and the emotional psychodrama to get there. They view pain as an objectively negative thing to be avoided at all costs, whereas reality is much more nuanced. We are all capable of—and I’d argue responsible for—ascribing meaning to our pain, and this can actually give our life purpose. But most people don’t realize this. And so they settle. They settle and wonder “What if?” for years and years until the question morphs from “What if?” into “Was that it?” And when the lawyers go home and the alimony check is in the mail, they say, “What was that for?” If not for their lowered standards and expectations 20 years prior, then what for?

Whenever you are reading this... just know, that @Shannon Koss and I are thinking of you. Thinking of how grateful we are to have you in our lives. Grateful for the shared experience. Merry Christmas to all... and to all a good night ❤️