Good Morning, Team! It’s Friday!

Christmas is over, the New Year is coming and we could all use a transition-period refresher as we welcome another trip around the sun.

I recently celebrated a milestone with family where a few friendly barbs were thrown as the kids tried to pretend they didn’t learn a thing from their old man. Wisdom follows age if you’re learning from your mistakes.  We all make some and the bold make more. If mistakes cause you to stop aspiring, you’re not reaching your potential.

I think I taught my kids plenty and one of the things they witnessed was resilience and the rebounding that followed.

Failure teaches us quite a lot and success might lull you into a false sense of reality. We live in a broken world and you can get hardened by all the crap, you can get soft from luck mixed with your efforts you like to call success or you can balance it all out and realize you are never as good as you think you are and you are never as bad as your critics claim.

When life serves you lemons…

•Whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you live – you have people who depend on you and care about you. Don’t let them down with less than your all. Don’t sell yourself short. Don’t allow anyone to gaslight you.

•Tomorrow is another day and a chance to improve on what you did today.

•No matter how easy things look for someone else, we all face challenges of some kind. Fight your battles with honor, integrity and no regret.

…you make lemonade!

Gallons of it.

Have a blessed weekend!

Make it your best year yet in ‘25.

Send me a note and tell me what you plan to change when it comes to making mistakes and learning from them … starting today.

Eric