And so, to the year ahead
How this simple set of goals has helped me get motivated
For officially the first time in 2026, Good Morning!
Thanks for either re-subscribing or simply opening this email once again.
I don’t know how you felt but the back end of 2025 was a dumpster fire for me.
One can almost mark the calendar (from October 14th through to December 23rd) where I just slogged my guts out for what I thought at the time was no return.
Of course it’s never the case that there’s zero return. All work is good. Sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes you don’t get the payoff (financial, reputational) until much later.
So I’ve started this year with intent! (He says like someone who has just taken out a gym membership on 1st January).
My focus this year is twofold:
Continue to build out my business against the mission, vision and values I’ve created (that’s a post for another time).
Build longer-term financial stability. Over the past 8 years I’ve been working on 12 monthly budgets. Now I’m working on a 5 year budget cycle which neatly aligns with when my kids finish school.
I posted this on LinkedIn a week ago…
So here are those ‘second set of numbers’ as of this morning:
I’ve created a simple ChatGPT prompt that updates it daily and emails it to me.
How have you started your goal setting for 2026?
See you in the morning.
Wade