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Earlier this month I wrote to you about choosing direction over resolution. About making decisions that align with your values throughout the year, and not waiting for a moment like a new year, a new month, a “new me”… to arrive before you hit life hard and fast.

This time of year, it’s natural for all of us to think about what we want to add.

New habits. New structures. New targets.

But before you add anything, I think it’s worth doing something else first:

Lighten the load.

I remember last year, your mum and I, after a challenging stretch of health battles and setbacks, sat by the fire out back with a piece of paper each. We wrote private lists of what we wanted to ditch: fears, worries, old stories, the quiet weights we’d been carrying for months… sometimes years.

We didn’t show each other.

We just scrunched the paper up and tossed it into the flame.

I think the year before that, your mum buried hers in the soil.

And maybe for you, one day, it’ll be as simple as hitting ERASE.

Whatever your method, I hope you learn this: there is power in choosing what you no longer want to carry.

Because life is a bit like packing your bag for a big adventure, you think you’re ready… then you repack it, and repack it again. You make it more compact. More intentional. More breathable. You keep the essentials and ditch what will only slow you down.

That’s what the end of the year can be too.

A chance to calibrate your mind with care, meticulous, deliberate, considered.

So… here’s what I hope you carry into the new year:

Kindness.

Not the loud kind. The quiet kind. The kind that shows up when no one is watching.

Courage.

Not the fearless kind, the honest kind. The courage to stay true to yourself when others lose their direction, their identity, their conviction.

Be you. Keep refining you.

And here’s what I hope you don’t carry:

Comparison.

We live in a world where you can pick up your phone and scroll through hundreds of lives in minutes. Everyone’s best bits. Everyone’s highlight reels. Twenty minutes can pass without you noticing.

Sometimes it inspires you, you see something beautiful and think, I’d love to do more of that.

But other times it leaves a quiet dent. Like you’re behind. Like your life is smaller. Like you’re missing something.

Unhelpful questions start to appear.

Your outlook warps.

And for a moment, the things you don’t have feel louder than the things you do.

So if you take anything into the new year, take this:

A new year is just a quiet invitation to choose more deliberately.

Keep what makes you lighter. Leave behind what makes you heavier.

Carry only what helps you grow.

Progress isn’t perfect.

It’s the resilience you show up with daily.

It isn’t always revealed immediately either, so be patient, commit to the process, and see things through.

On the back of my arm, I have a small tattoo: “Anything is everything.”

I’m not sure where it first comes from, I just know its meaning keeps finding me.

At its heart it says: Nothing is small if you’re paying attention.

One moment. One choice. One conversation. One habit, treated with care, can ripple outward into a whole life.

Presence over scale.

Meaning doesn’t come from spectacle, it comes from attention.

The micro shapes the macro.

How you do the smallest things reflects how you do the biggest.

And that’s why these letters,  although small, deserve to be done properly.

With consistency. With consideration. With care.

Because the act of writing to you ripples outward into my life.

And one day, I hope, into yours too.

And maybe even into the lives of the readers walking alongside us as we go.

Happy New Year my boy - 2026 is going to be our year of adventure and FUN.

Always,

Daddy

I’ll be back with some content that I am excited about.

See you all in the New Year.

I wish you all, health & happiness for 2026 (and beyond)…

Thank you again for your support.