The Time is now.

Reflections for the New Year.

2025 was one heck of a year. I watched politics turn into a bad reality show, gross instability everywhere, and the absurd stuff just kept getting rewarded. Trump kept proving that chaos can be sold as leadership, and here in New York, Mundami is already a complete power-lusting crack-pot, showing that competence is optional if you look impressive enough. Back home, the UK kepts reminding me that sense has been legislated out of existence—leadership crises, bureaucratic contradictions, and headlines that make me want to scream.

Well, over Christmas, I let myself step back, I let my mind wander, and I let a few repressed thoughts come to the surface. I really thought about what I’d been doing, and I realised I’d spent far too much energy on trivialities, on distractions, on the endless chaos that drags me into loops of nothing. I’d let the small stuff control too much of my life.

I put out twenty-six pieces last year. Some sharp, cutting straight to the heart of things; others meandered as I explored new angles; a few were experiments that didn’t quite land. But each one mattered. Each one was me trying to slice through the noise, push ideas further, dig into corners most people ignore. I used creating as a way to stay sane, a way to impose order on the madness around me. It tested me, and it hammered home the truth: clarity and purpose take courage. You stand firm, or nothing happens.

I know now that I gave too much of myself to other people and their endless drama. I let their priorities overshadow mine. That changes in 2026. I will not apologise for being me. I will not shrink to make everyone else comfortable. The absurdity out there—the cultural nonsense, the people peddling it without thought, the leaders acting as if competence is optional—will be met with quiet rejection. Evil, where it appears, I will steer clear of. What I can’t control, I will leave to fizzle. I’ve seen it happen too often: it eats itself alive in the end, by its own flawed logic.

This year, I want to reclaim my headspace. I will dial back social media, the constant flood of trivial news, celebrity nonsense, headlines that hijack my brain around the clock. I will put my attention on what actually matters. My approach is simple: I live the future now. I make moves that build momentum. I focus on essentials. I go after what counts without second-guessing. And yes, the shredder will see more action—clutter, obligations I never chose, leftover nonsense I’ve been carrying that serves no purpose. It’s a little funny, but it feels liberating to watch it all vanish. I’m looking forward to that freedom.

I already have some things in motion this year. Projects quietly bubble in the background. A few moves are being set into place. The details are under wraps for now, but the direction feels right. I will help others, when it makes sense and doesn’t drain me or pull me off track. I start this year with forty-one subscribers, and I think I can double that. Not for bragging, but just to see what real, focused effort can actually do. I want to know what I’m capable of when I apply myself.

2026 is about taking back control. I reflect on what worked and what didn’t. I create with purpose. I stay true to what drives me, to what makes me grow. I live deliberately, without letting the world’s chaos pull me under. The absurdity will still be there—the ongoing Trump-based spectacles in the US, Mundami’s power games in NYC, the UK’s latest nonsense—but it will no longer dictate my life. One deliberate step at a time. I build something real. I cut the clutter. I live the way it should be lived.

This is my year of deliberate action. Quiet progress. Protecting my mind and my energy. Saying no to what drains and yes to what builds. Pushing forward even when everything seems chaotic. Creating, moving, living, fully conscious of what matters and leaving the rest to collapse under its own weight. The time is now. I claim space. I claim focus. I claim my life—without apology, without hesitation, and without distraction.