What I'll STOP in 2026

1. Running my life like a sprint
   I teach long-term capacity. I will live it by cuttiung: sleep debt, calendar overload, "push through" weeks.

2. Explaining myself to misaligned people
   If they don't get it, they're not my audience. I will stop over-justifying my pace, values or philosophy.

3. Mistaking insight for resolution
   Understanding ≠ integration. Some things need presence, not thinking.

4. Being universally legible
   I don't need to be everything to everyone. Clarity beats complexity.

5. Postponing joy
   There is no "after this phase." Life is happening now.

6. Consuming more than I create
   The scroll is infinite. My attention isn't. I will protect what I feed your mind.

7. Saying yes to preserve peace
   Conflict-avoidance isn't kindness. It's delayed honesty that costs everyone more.

8. Treating rest as a reward
   Rest is infrastructure, not a prize for productivity. Stop earning what you already need.

9. Optimizing what should be savored
   Not everything needs a system. Some things are meant to be inefficient, messy, human.

10. Waiting for permission
    From others. From conditions. From a future version of yourself who feels "ready."

What I'll DO MORE in 2026

1. Body-led play (no metrics)
   Ski. Ride. Play with my son. Laugh. This is nervous-system maintenance, not recreation.

2. Choose by aliveness, not strategy
   If it feels dead, it is. My intuition is calibrated and I'll use it.

3. Presence without fixing
   With my fiancé. With my son. With clients. Listen. Touch. Stay.

4. Speak with conviction
   Fewer caveats. Shorter sentences. Let your stance be felt.

5. Design life around memories
   Put adventures on the calendar first. Connection is the constraint.

6. Create before I consume
   Morning pages. Voice memos. Ideas before inputs. Generate before I absorb.

7. Ask for what I want directly
   No hints. No hoping. Clear requests create clear outcomes.

8. Let things be complete
   Finish the book. End the conversation. Let projects die. Completion creates space.

9. Touch the ground
   Literal and metaphorical. Feet in dirt. Hands in soil. Reality over abstraction.

10. Celebrate incremental shifts
    You'll never "arrive." Notice the 1% better. Honor the unglamorous progress.

11. Say the true thing sooner
    The cost of withholding grows with time. Speak it when it's small.

12. Build in white space
    Calendar margin isn't weakness. It's where life actually happens.

My Rule for 2026: Stop proving. Start inhabiting.