New Year's Day - U2

This is the Golden Age - Hewson

So long 2025. Was it a good year, and is 2026 going to be awesome? Well only you will know. I do hope it has been and will be.

Anyway, what was frightening about the year 2025 is that a quarter of the 21st Century is officially complete, and has already slipped through our fingers without us noticing. Yes, 31st December 2025 is actually a great wake up call if the last few years in your world evaporated.

Sure on January 1st, most of us will make some inner promises to change our habits and be better versions of ourselves but how many of us will decide to waste time and miss opportunities less?

I speak daily to folk that hate their jobs, where they live, who they live with and how they are under achieving. And if they're not careful the same will happen in 2026, in 2027 and way beyond. I mean it's only human nature to take the easy path and keep things as they are and grind through another 365 days to another New Year's Day marked full of regret.

Now I'm the original New Year's Resolution guy and before you go and fuck the first day of a New Year up, as it's still early, why not take the plunge and take on 2026 and become the best version of yourself.

And this isn't just a temporary thing you do until you've been and run a marathon, transversed a desert or climbed a mountain. This is for 2026 and life beyond.

I'm trying to live the dream. And I say trying as it's not an easy task. Life throws us curve balls every day that distract us from the path. But if you want to make the most of the next 25 year's or even still just be here on January 1st 2051 - (yikes I'll be 88) make those changes today.

And with your fresh start, make the most of today. Go for a run. Go to the gym. Love the world. Love yourself. Feel lucky. Live the dream and do something that matters and do it with the people you love.

Amen.

1,232 Marathons - 290 Ultras - 18 MDS - 10 GWR - 1 Life